Ep. 460 Jefferson and Jackson: Good Guys, Bad Guys, or One of Each?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Democratic Party of Connecticut has dropped the names of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from its annual dinner. Does this move make sense? Were these good guys or bad guys, and would they recognize the modern Democratic Party?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 460. |
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| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.4 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:30.2 | Talking to Kevin Goetzman once again today, we're going to be talking about Thomas Jefferson, |
| 0:34.9 | Andrew Jackson, the Democratic Party, and a whole lot more. You'll see why, what the occasion is for our discussion of these men in just a moment. I'll leave that to my discussion with Kevin. But what we're going to do is try to get to the bottom of whether these men were good from the point of view of liberty. Or maybe one of them was good and one was bad. Or maybe they're both bad. |
| 0:58.9 | Well, you have to see what you think in just a moment when you hear our analysis of both of these men from the perspective of history. |
| 1:06.5 | Kevin Goodsman is a professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, where he is also the chairman of the Department of History. |
| 1:15.8 | Kevin is the author of several books, most recently James Madison and The Making of America. |
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| 1:56.0 | I'm happy to be here, Tom. Tell me about what the decision was that the Democrats in Connecticut and apparently in at least |
| 2:03.4 | one other state made recently with regard to their special dinner. The Republicans have the Lincoln Day |
| 2:10.3 | dinner in various states, and the Democrats had some other kind of dinner. What was that? And then we'll |
| 2:16.5 | go into the significance of it. |
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