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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 591 Presidents Who Screwed Up America

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We talk about some in this episode, and Brion McClanahan covers a whole lot more in his killer new book. Down with presidential idolatry!

Show notes for Ep. 591

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 591.

0:03.8

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.4

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

Hey, everybody, benefit from my inside information.

0:16.9

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0:19.5

whose courses teach you foreign languages on the go, are having a 60% off sale this Friday, February 12, 2016.

0:27.2

Save the date and check it out at Tom Woods.com slash rocket. Welcome, everybody. We're talking about the presidents today, and we're joined by the author of a brand new book on the presidents. And the book is

0:40.1

called Nine Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her, the author

0:45.7

Brian McClanahan, who's been a guest on this program in the past more than once. Brian

0:51.1

holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of South Carolina. He's the

0:55.8

author of several other books, including the Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution,

1:00.5

the politically incorrect guide to the founding fathers, and the politically incorrect guide to

1:05.9

real American heroes. He also co-authored the book Forgotten Conservatives in American History with

1:14.1

Clyde Wilson. Brian, welcome back to the show. Hey, thanks for having me, Tom. Appreciate it.

1:19.1

All right, you got this great new book. I just gave everybody the super long title and subtitle.

1:25.1

And, okay, what made you decide the presidents have to be talked about? Have we talked about the presidents enough?

1:31.1

Well, no. I think that we haven't talked about them enough, at least in the way I talk about him in the book.

1:35.7

And the idea that I followed, it actually was born out of my 2012, the Founding Father's God, to the Constitution.

1:42.8

When I was doing the interviews for that,

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I made a statement that every president in the last hundred years, virtually every president,

1:48.5

should have been impeached. And people were shocked by that. In fact, I was on with G. Gordon Liddy,

1:52.6

and he got a good laugh out of that. And he said, well, I agree. So, but that was one thing that

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