This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

You get your podcasts. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

Up next, a story about two men that changed American history.

The men, slavery firebrand John C. Calhoun, and the son of our second president, John Quincy Adams.

Here to tell the story is James Trow, author of John Quincy Adams,

militant spirit, Dr. Robert Elder, author of John C. Calhoun,

American Heretic. Let's get into the story. Take it away, Robert.

Calhoun comes on to the political scene during the war of 1812.

He's one of the small group of congressmen who really pushed the war legislatively and

were responsible for keeping the war effort together.

And so he's instantly a sort of national figure and he goes into James Monroe's cabinet

as Secretary of War, and that's where

he meets John Quincy Adams. His father was a man who lived in the nation. His father was one of the

leaders of the forces that ultimately rebelled against the British. The lullabies with which his mother

would rock him to sleep,

glorified poems from the Irish rebellion against the British glorified sacrifice in the name of

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