The Tom Wood Show, episode 1736,

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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. All right, I'm rectifying an injustice from a week or two ago.

I played for you a lecture I gave as part of a seminar I delivered at the Measus Institute

all the way back in 2001. What a young lad I was in those days. And it was a two-part lecture,

and I played you only part one because I'm just sometimes I'm a tease.

All right, and it was about the history of the presidency, but particularly how the US presidency

grew in power over time. And then I just left you hanging and I didn't bring it to the present day.

I didn't continue the presentation. Here's part two. Now you may say to me woods, I didn't hear part one.

This talk is designed to be listened to independently of part one. It might be you might feel

more enriched if you've heard both parts, but you're not going to be lost if you say don't go

fumbling for that previous episode. You listen to this one first. Maybe you're listening to the

amount of order. You know, lightning's not going to strike. It's okay. This is a standalone talk,

and it's about, you know, there'll be a bunch of bad guys in it, so be prepared. But this is woods

in his capacity as a historian, not delivering a lecture in front of a raw, raw crowd at a big rally,

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