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The Brion McClanahan Show

Episode 28: Lincoln and the Constitution

The Brion McClanahan Show

The Brion McClanahan Show

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4.9654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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How did Abraham Lincoln "screw up America" as I proposed in my newest book, 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America? Simple. He continually and willfully violated his oath of office dozens of times as President, setting a dangerous precedent for those that followed. I discuss specific violations in detail. http://learntruehistory.com

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0:30.2

Hey everybody, Brian McClanahan here. Are you looking for a great website that gives you history

0:35.2

the way it was intended to be told with no PC, no Marxism,

0:40.1

no progressivism. Well, I've got it for you. It's learn truehistory.com. That's learn

0:47.1

true history.com. Learn history from great professors who don't sugarcoat it for you. This is not

0:54.1

for your delicate flowers.

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That's learntruehistory.com, learn truehistory.com.

1:01.2

This is the Brian McClanahan Show.

1:03.9

Three, two, one, zero, zero, and stop. Welcome back to the Brian McClain.

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This is episode.

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I'd like to focus on Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution today. When I wrote my nine

1:30.3

presidents who screwed up America and four who tried to save her, one of the chapters focused on

1:34.9

Abraham Lincoln, and it was by far the most controversial chapter in the book. Now, the left

1:40.8

liked to rip apart my chapter on Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson or Harry Truman,

1:48.0

some of the other very strong executives of the 20th century.

1:52.7

And as I talked about in the last podcast, you know, Franklin Roosevelt really is, his administration

1:58.4

really is a watershed administration in American history because we're living

2:02.6

in the aftermath of that and we still haven't left a wartime footing either militarily or economically.

2:08.6

But Lincoln's chapter was one that people on the left and the right picked up on and heavily criticized. How can you say

2:19.6

Abraham Lincoln screwed up America when he saved the union? Well, of course, the point of the book

2:24.3

is not the outcome of the policies or the policies themselves, generally. It's how they upheld their oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution

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