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🗓️ 1 May 2018
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0:00.0 | Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 72 of the National Security Law Podcast. |
0:14.0 | We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's, uh, what? Tuesday |
0:19.3 | morning, May 1st. May 1st. |
0:21.2 | May 1st? |
0:22.1 | May 1st. |
0:23.1 | May day. |
0:24.2 | May day. |
0:24.5 | Oh, wait. |
0:24.9 | No, it's, it's Loyalty Day. |
0:26.5 | So I didn't know about this. |
0:28.5 | Tell me. |
0:29.3 | Tell me about loyalty day, Steve. |
0:30.6 | Well, so the internet did a classic Trump derangement freak out last night when they discovered |
0:35.0 | that President Trump was proclaiming today to be Loyalty Day. |
0:38.2 | It does sound alarming. |
0:40.0 | Until you point out that every president, since Eisenhower, has done it because after all, |
0:44.5 | what's the proper reaction to May Day but loyalty day? |
0:49.0 | So this goes back to sort of 20th century battles between commemoration of this state as commemoration to the haymarket |
0:55.9 | massacre and sort of a, you know, leftist holiday tradition. So American presidents going back to, |
1:01.9 | I don't know how far, have been touting this as, no, no, no, a day to focus on loyalty to the |
1:06.9 | country and appreciation for freedom. Loyalty to the country. Interesting. Not loyalty to the president. |
1:11.6 | Did our current president say anything squarely in describing this? |
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