3.2 Thomas Jefferson

American Presidents: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

Comedy, History

4.9 • 836 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2018

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Thomas becomes secretary of state after getting back from France, and from then on he is at the centre of Us politics. But how does he do? He has a dream of an agrarian utopia, but are his cheeses big enough? Are there too many Megalonyxs? Why have pirate declared war on them? And what is Burr up to now? Jefferson will have to overcome many obstacles if he wants to score high in this episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium.
0:10.0	This week, Tollus Jefferson, Part 2.
0:15.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to American Presidents, so tell us Rankium.
0:27.2	I am Jamie.
0:28.0	And I'm Rob, ranking all of the presidents from Washington to Trump.
0:32.1	And here we are on episode 3.2, Thomas Jefferson, Part 2.
0:40.7	At the end of last episode, you said he needed to do a lot today to make up for some of his more dubious activity, should we say. Yeah. So do you think he'll
0:48.4	be able to? It's a well-known name, so maybe he does, maybe just something amazing. Should we find out?
0:53.3	Right, okay, so end end of the last time.
0:55.7	Jefferson's just arrived home with his daughters and his slaves and Sally Hemings, who is pregnant.
1:03.5	Oh dear.
1:04.2	But it gets back to Monticello and there waiting for him is a letter from Washington.
1:10.4	All right letters.
1:11.2	Washington by now is the president.
1:13.7	And Washington wanted to know one thing.
1:15.9	Would Jefferson be his secretary of state?
1:18.6	Jefferson wasn't actually too excited by this prospect.
1:21.0	You probably don't know what it is.
1:22.2	I don't know I just have to stay as, to be honest.
1:24.4	Exactly.
1:25.2	You're what?
1:26.4	No, I'm all right.
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