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🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome. Welcome to another episode in our series about the hidden lives of First |
0:07.8 | Ladies. And today I want to talk to you about a woman who is often overshadowed by the stories of her predecessors. |
0:14.7 | Though she was reserved and introverted, she managed to experience many moments of excitement throughout |
0:21.5 | her life, including the time she took dramatic action to save the life |
0:27.4 | of a well-known French aristocrat. |
0:31.4 | Keep listening because here's where it gets interesting. |
0:35.0 | I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So |
0:40.0 | podcast. |
0:41.0 | If you've been following along with our First Lady series, you may very well know who's next in the lineup, |
0:49.7 | but maybe you don't. Elizabeth Monroe doesn't usually make many top 10 lists and |
0:56.4 | while she and her husband James Monroe occupied the White House during a time of |
1:00.4 | national prosperity historians call the era of good feelings. They were not a |
1:06.8 | flashy couple and really didn't participate in flashy divisive politics. |
1:13.6 | In fact, this was during a time period |
1:15.8 | when the Federalist Party leaders, |
1:18.3 | like John Adams Alexander Hamilton, had retired or died off, and there was really only one political party left in the country, the Democratic Republicans. |
1:27.8 | And during this time, James Monroe went on a national tour to sort of welcome all of the Federalists into the Democratic Republican Party |
1:38.2 | to create a wider umbrella under which more Americans could rest. |
1:44.0 | So historians call this the era of good feelings. |
1:46.2 | Did it mean that everybody had good feelings? |
1:48.0 | No. |
1:49.3 | But Elizabeth was born Elizabeth Courtright in 1768 the youngest daughter of an old money |
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