Ep. 1464 The Obscure Presidents, Good and Bad
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Brion McClanahan Week continues with a look at U.S. presidents we barely hear about (and who tend, naturally, to be the better ones) and how we should evaluate them.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Wood Show, episode 1464. |
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| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:32.1 | promo code Woods during checkout. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Brian McClanahan Week continues. We're talking to Brian McClanahan, obviously, who is the host here. Brian McClanahan Week continues. |
| 0:38.0 | We're talking to Brian McClanahan, obviously, who is the host of the Brian McClanahan |
| 0:41.5 | show. |
| 0:42.0 | Brian spelled B-R-I-O-N. |
| 0:44.6 | Brian is the author of numerous books, as I mentioned yesterday, PhD from the University of |
| 0:49.0 | South Carolina, very, very knowledgeable, teaches us at libertyclassroom.com. And today I thought we would talk about, let's say, some of the lesser known presidents, |
| 0:58.2 | whether they were good or bad, just lesser known, and get Brian's thoughts on them. |
| 1:02.5 | Because Brian, after all, among other things, is the author of a book called Nine Presidents |
| 1:06.6 | Who Screwed Up America. |
| 1:08.0 | So he's got quite a lot to say about the president. So let's, |
| 1:11.9 | let's dive right in. Brian, welcome back. Thanks for having me, Tom. Appreciate it. All right. Second |
| 1:15.5 | episode of Brian McClanahan Week. This time we're going to talk about unknown presidents, unknown to 99% of |
| 1:21.3 | Americans, let's say. And I like how when you were proposing this, you said that we could just |
| 1:27.2 | pick a few out of a hat if you want. |
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