What Would Thomas Jefferson Do? (2019)
by Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson
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New Year's Celebrations
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"Put all of your books in order, answer your correspondence as quickly as possible."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Subpoenas
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"I stand by my decision in 1807."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Government Shutdowns
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"There must be a better way for the political factions of your time to sort out their differences."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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War Powers Act
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"The people are the source of all authority."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Taxes
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"I don't like confiscation of wealth and I don't like redistribution."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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The Appointment Process
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"As long as he is a person of respectability and good standing, he should be confirmed, almost automatically."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Federal Employees
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"I would think that this would generate rebellion."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Presidential Pets
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"We elect them for another purpose besides their friendliness to animals."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Appropriations
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International Relations
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"They watched with some fascination, but also condescension, as we attempted to create an American republic."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Balanced Budget
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"I was saddened to believe that they had not put in a provision prohibiting a perpetual national debt."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Cincinnatus
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"The moment that he had won a stunning victory for Rome, he broke his sword, and returned to his modest farm."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Ne Plus Ultra
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"I would have liked to have had Canada. Twice, we invaded Canada during my lifetime, and failed on both occasions."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Health and Wellness
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"If you can, bathe your feet every morning in cold water."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Electoral College
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The Jefferson Bible
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Meat as a Condiment
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"I myself am largely a vegetarian — not completely, but largely so."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Tax Day
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Income Inequality
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"The great bulk of the wealth of France was in the hands of a very tiny number of people."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Presidential Powers
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"We need eternal vigilance."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Congressional Powers
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"I was, as far as I know, the first president to set that tone: that the president can not be required to testify in civil cases."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Tariffs
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"Government, when it intrudes into the marketplace of the economy, almost invariably ... does nobody any good."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Immigration
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"I would be for the most open borders that are possible within an understanding of national security."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Presidential Indictments
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"I refused to honor the subpoena but I did voluntarily supply some of the documents."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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The Wealth of Nations
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"Every individual [is] led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention."
— Adam Smith
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The Supreme Court
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"It is a necessary evil, and the more we rein it in, the happier and freer we shall be." — Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Royals
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"It mythologizes absolutism and tyranny."
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Travel
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"I never traveled farther than about 75 miles west of my birthplace. I never really saw the other side of the Appalachian Mountains."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Legacy
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"If we failed, it would be such a setback for the human project; if we succeeded, it would certainly become a template for the future."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson's Last Letter
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"may it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the Signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government. that form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. all eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. the general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. these are grounds of hope for others. for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
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Immigration
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"You have to train to be an American. It's an ideal."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Political Debates
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"That system didn't exist in my time, and if it did, I would not have participated in it."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Greenland
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"I'm a mere orangutan. I like to live in a temperate place."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Economics and Politics
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"I would hope that people would vote for happiness much more frequently than they would vote for profit."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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G7
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"It's important that nations understand each other."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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"In questions of taxation, people have every right to set any limits that they wish."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Hurricanes and Storms
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"This is precisely why I wanted to create an American science of meteorology."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Firing Cabinet Members
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"We need second and other voices, including voices of dissent."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Presidential Indictments
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"If the president does something really horrible, we have a system here of impeachment."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Alliances
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"peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none"
— Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
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"How we educate our children is a sacred business."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Three Branches
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"First among the equals is the legislative branch, because that's the branch that's closest to the people."
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Access to Information
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"Some things never change, dad!"
— Ivanka Trump
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"I don't think that he was as intellectually acute as he had been at previous moments in his life."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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"Their concern was to make sure that foreign individuals or foreign governments did not interfere in the American republic by way of giving lavish gifts"
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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Impeachment
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"That's the point of a constitutional revision: to clarify."
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Christmas
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"I often went to house parties during this period and engaged in the convivialities of youth."
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson
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credits
released January 1, 2019
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The Thomas Jefferson Hour is a weekly radio program dedicated to the search for truth in the tradition of Thomas
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Nationally acclaimed humanities scholar and award-winning first-person interpreter of Thomas Jefferson, Clay S. Jenkinson, portrays Jefferson on the program, and he answers listener questions while in the persona of our third president.
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