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AS OUR NATION'S SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. HE HAD MANY DISADVANTAGES AS SECRETARY, BUT TWO KEY ADVANTAGES. HIS MAN IN LONDON WAS JOHN ADAMS AND...
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ARE NO SURVIVING LETTERS FROM JOHN TO SARAH, I KNOW THERE WERE SUCH LETTERS AT ONE TIME. THE STORY OF LETTERS AND BOOKS, THOUGH, HAS A 20TH CENTURY...
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THAT. >> CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, SO ONE OF THE CLAIMS OF ACHIEVEMENT IF ANY AS CHIEF JUSTICE? >> YES. I THINK IF YOU WERE TO TAKE A POLL AND ASK PEOPLE...
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I HAVE ACTUALLY SEEN IT ASSERTED IN HIS BOOK, JOHN MARSHALL WAS THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES. JAY DOESN'T HAVE RINGING OPINIONS THAT CAN BE...
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THE WAY THAT JOHN MARSHALL DOES, BUT IF YOU ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHAT THE JAY COURT DID, IT HELPED TO LAY THE FOUNDATIONS FOR WHAT THE MARSHALL COURT AND...
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| 00:21:39 |
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WILL GET INTO THEIR PARTICULAR CONCERNS, BUT I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT
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| 00:21:44 |
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THEIR MAIN CONCERN WAS THAT IT WAS A TREATY WITH THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, THAT DETESTED MONARCHS, AND THAT ENEMY OF REPUBLICAN FRANCE. INDEED, THE...
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| 00:22:00 |
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BEFORE THE TERMS OF THE TREATY WERE KNOWN. BEFORE JOHN JAY HAD ARRIVED BACK BEFORE THE COPY OF THE TREATIES HAD ARRIVED BACK, WHEN ALL THAT WAS KNOWN...
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| 00:24:13 |
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HOW DID HE AFFECT NEW YORK AT THE REVOLUTION? >> OK. UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T HAVE ANY OPINION POLLS FOR THE 18TH CENTURY, SO IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT...
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LOYAL COLONIES, AND PEOPLE IN BRITAIN FELT THAT. THAT'S WHY ONE OF THEIR MOST -- THEIR FIRST OBJECTIVES WAS TO RECAPTURE NEW YORK, THROUGHOUT THE REVOLUTION,...
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| 00:27:08 |
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THE SUPREME COURT OPINIONS, BUT IN LETTERS TO WASHINGTON, OTHERS, SOME OF THE OPINION, LEGAL ISSUES, JAY ADVOCATED WHAT I WOULD CONSIDER A RELATIVELY...
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| 00:29:05 |
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OF THE DEBT MADE IT BACK -- DATED BACK TO THE EARLY 1770'S, AND BRITISH MERCHANTS HAD BEEN, OF COURSE, UNABLE TO ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE THEM
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| 00:29:15 |
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DURING THE REVOLUTION, BUT THEY BARGAINED FOR AND THE TREATY INCLUDED THE PROVISION THAT SAID THEY WOULD FACE NO IMPEDIMENT IN THE COLLECTION OF BONA...
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| 00:31:17 |
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OK. I DIDN'T START WITH JOHN JAY. WHEN I FIRST HAD THIS FLASH IN HONG KONG THAT I WAS GOING TO WRITE A BOOK, SOMETHING SERIOUS WITH MY LIFE, AND I...
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| 00:31:39 |
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FIND ANYTHING IN THAT PERIOD THAT HADN'T BEEN DONE. I THEN MOVED BACK, STARTED WORKING ON A FRIEND OF JAY'S, GOVERNOR. AND BIOGRAPHIES OF SOME OF HIS...
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| 00:34:56 |
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GREATER SUCCESSES? SECOND QUESTION IS SIMPLY IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO THE RUMOR THAT I HAVE HEARD FOR YEARS, THE REASON WE DO
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| 00:35:09 |
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NOT HAVE JAY, SOMEONE DISLIKED HIM. >> THOSE ARE PRETTY -- WHAT WE HAVE TODAY AS FOUNDING FATHERS REALLY DIDN'T COME INTO BEING UNTIL RELATIVELY RECENTLY,...
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| 00:35:35 |
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THAT JEFFERSON OR ADAMS WERE MORE FAMOUS THAN JOHN JAY. SO I DON'T KNOW THAT HE PARTICULARLY PRESENTED THEIR GREATER FAME. AFTER ALL, JEFFERSON MONUMENTS,...
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| 00:37:20 |
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I GUESS, TO HISTORY? WHAT IS THE POINT OF VIEW THAT HASN'T BEEN TAKEN BEFORE, THAT YOU HAVE DERIVED FROM ALL THIS RESEARCH FOR THIS BOOK? >> WELL, THE...
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| 00:37:57 |
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RECORDS. SO TO TAKE THIS ONE EXAMPLE, I VIEW ONE OF JAY'S MOST SHINING MOMENTS, THE CONVENTION, HE CRAFTED COMPROMISE, THAT ALLOWED NEW YORK TO RATIFY....
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| 00:39:31 |
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AT WWW.ARKANSAS KOOIFS.GOV. IF YOU'RE IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. METRO AREA, COME AND VISIT US THROUGH SOME OF THE NEW EXHIBITS OR SOME OF THE MORE CHERISHED...
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.