Welcome to the Daily Signal Podcast. I'm Richard Grinch. Today I'm talking with Brenda

Haferra, Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst in the Kenneth Simon Center for

American Studies at the Heritage Foundation. About a new report she has written titled

A Tale of Three Presidential Houses, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Now this is a lengthy

report that details concentrated efforts at pedagogical corruption and presentation

of the legacy of our great Virginian presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Brenda

news is starting to trickle out of things going on at these homes. People are starting

to write about it. However, you have written a comprehensive and detailed review of the

exact nature of the corruption of how we might learn about the legacy and the ideas and

the teachings of James Madison and Tom Jefferson. You also write about the George Washington

home out Vernon, but things they are not nearly as far gone as they are these other two

homes. Tell us what prompted you to write this report and what did you find?

Well, honestly what prompted me is I have gone on these tours multiple times and most

of the time I would get into, I would call a conversation with some of the tour guides

over the way they were presenting things and some of the things that they said which were

just inaccurate and I didn't think of fair representation. And so that's how this kind

of all started and what I found is in our assessment, Mount Vernon is the good, Monticello

is the bad and Montpelier is unfortunately the ugly. Mount Vernon is doing quite a good

job because they have an entire education and museum center focused on George Washington

and his accomplishments. So they take you through his early life, the French and Indian wars,

the Revolutionary War, the Constitutional Convention, the Farewell address and all these

different pieces that are important part of Washington's legacy. During the house tour

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