S8 Ep716: 15. John Adams and the XYZ Affair Guest: Myron Magnet. Myron Magnet recounts how President John Adams sought peace with France amidst the XYZ Affair. The diplomatic crisis sparked domestic turmoil and intense rivalry between Federalists and Republicans ov
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15. John Adams and the XYZ AffairGuest: Myron Magnet. Myron Magnet recounts how President John Adams sought peace with France amidst the XYZ Affair. The diplomatic crisis sparked domestic turmoil and intense rivalry between Federalists and Republicans over America’s role in Europe. (15)
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| 0:29.9 | Today. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Myron Magnet, a national humanities mentalist, as well as the author of a number of books. |
| 0:53.9 | But the one that's fun is the |
| 0:56.2 | founders at home, the Building of America, 1735 to 1817. You get real estate imagination going on about |
| 1:04.4 | who were these men and what kind of houses did they live at? You do want to know. Marron, a very good |
| 1:10.4 | evening to you. we go to something |
| 1:11.6 | that we all saw in the textbook and i think about the seventh grade and then you you forget |
| 1:17.5 | about it for 70 or 80 years and it comes back to you when when marron magnet writes about it |
| 1:22.4 | the x y z affair in late 20 and 18th century amer, there was a man named John Adams, who becomes the |
| 1:31.2 | president of the United States. And in 1797, remember he's sworn in in March, he becomes president |
| 1:38.2 | in March of 1797. That summer, he is seeking to resolve a foreign crisis that very much threatens his country and neighboring countries, trade and all possible solutions because there's a man and a revolution underway in France that is both at the same time reminiscent of the American Revolution and not, |
| 2:02.7 | the famous XYZ affair. |
| 2:05.1 | Who was John Adams at that moment? |
| 2:06.9 | I know he's president, but how did he see his role as president? |
| 2:10.1 | And why did he send Pinkney, Jerry, and Marshall to France, to deal with France. |
| 2:19.4 | What did he want to achieve? |
| 2:20.8 | Good evening to you, Meyer. |
| 2:22.7 | It's good to see you, as always, John. |
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