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And so rather than giving up his residual, youthful conservatism, and moving to the left, he fought the left, and that was unusual.

But he had the kind of grounding that made,

that he wasn't simply going to go with the wins. This is your host, Scott Bertram. Welcome to

the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College podcast network. That was historian

George Nash. We'll talk with him later on in today's program

about the significance of William F. Buckley Jr. and the early history of the conservative

movement here in the United States. First, we're joined by Dr. Richard Samuelson. He is

Associate Professor of Government at Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C. campus.

Dr. Samuelson, thanks for joining us.

Well, thanks for having me, Scott.

Appreciate it.

We continue our conversations today through a series of talks surrounding 250th anniversaries,

and this time around the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord, April 19th, 1775.

So let's go a few days, weeks, months before April 19th, 1775.

Describe for us as we begin the interactions between the comedies of British America, the King,

and Parliament of Great Britain in those years leading up to the outbreak of hostilities.

Yeah, well, in what we last on to discuss the American Revolution, we discussed the Boston Tea Party,

which took place at the end of 1773. And in reaction to that, the British

passed what the Americans call the intolerable acts and what they call the coercive acts that specifically

singled out Massachusetts, both to repay the tea, but they shut down Massachusetts government

in general.

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