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THE MOST -- WAS CALLED THE MOST GRATING POLITICAL MANIAC I EVER KNEW. HE WAS A POWERFUL FIGURE, AND RODE ON MASSIVE MEMOIR WHICH HISTORIANS HAVE BEEN...
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AND HE WAS VERY POWERFUL DURING THAT TIME. >> THE STORY ABOUT THE DEAL WILL AND ANDREW JACKSON NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME WHEN I READ IT. >> BENTON HAD...
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TO BE THE SECOND ABDULAT A DUEL.
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JESSE TOOK THAT BILL WOULD -- TOOK A BULLET TO THE BUTTOCKS WHICH WAS SOMEWHAT OF AN EMBARRASSMENT. PEOPLE BEGAN TRASHING JACKSON'S NAME. JACKSON TOOK...
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ISSUES OF THE DAY. >> ANOTHER SENATOR YOU WRITE ABOUT -- AND I BRING THIS UP TO SET THE MOOD OF THAT TIME PERIOD. BENTON WAS A DEMOCRAT, POLK WAS A...
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| 00:02:48 |
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MCDUFFY WAS A DEMOCRAT. >>
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| 00:02:55 |
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HE WAS A PROTEGE OF CALHOUN. VERY EARLY DURING THE JACKSON PRESIDENCY, TOYED WITH THE IDEA THAT STRAIGHTS -- THAT STATES COULD SECEDE FROM THE UNION....
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| 00:03:17 |
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TO SECESSION. JACKSON SAID, I AM SENDING TROOPS DOWN AND HANG ANY TRADERS WHO TRY TO RENT THIS HALLOWED UNION. HE QUASHED THE NULLIFICATION MOVEMENT....
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| 00:04:08 |
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THE 20TH CENTURY PRESIDENT MOST LIKE JACKSON'S MAIN RIVAL WAS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. BOTH GREAT PATRIOTS --
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| 00:04:17 |
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CLAY AND JACKSON. THEY HATED EACH OTHER AND LOVED AMERICA. THEY HAD NOTHING BUT THE GREATEST DESIGNS FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE. CLAY BELIEVE IN THE CONCENTRATION...
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| 00:05:20 |
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LOVES AMERICAN HISTORY. SHE ASKED ME DURING THE DISCUSSION WE WERE HAVING, WHAT I WAS COMING UP WITH SOME IDEAS
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| 00:05:27 |
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FOR BOOKS WHICH SHE WAS NOT PARTICULARLY ENAMORED OF, SHE SAYS, WE WILL COME UP WITH SOMETHING. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE MEXICAN WAR? I SAID THAT...
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| 00:06:20 |
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DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY DECADES. IT IS WONDERFUL WORKING FOR HER. >> WHAT IS YOUR -- WHAT WAS HER REACTION? >>
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| 00:06:28 |
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A LOT OF TOUGH QUESTIONS. SHE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAD SHAPED RIGHT. I WENT BACK AND WROTE THE MEMO, THEN SHE SEEMED TO LIKE IT. THEN SHE SENT...
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| 00:06:46 |
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ON MY OWN. FOR
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| 00:06:49 |
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THREE YEARS WE HAD ALMOST NO CONVERSATION UNTIL SHE GOT THE FULL MANUSCRIPT. IT TURNED OUT WAS ON THE RIGHT TRACK. >> WHAT DID SHE WANT TO DO THAT YOU...
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| 00:07:18 |
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I WAS RUNNING CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY. THAT WAS A DEMANDING JOB. I
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| 00:07:23 |
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HAD TO SHAPE MY EFFORTS. I READ A LOT OF NEWSPAPERS. IN FACT, I READ THE "DAILY GLOBE" AND THE "DAILY
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| 00:07:35 |
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UNION." AND THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. I READ THOSE PAPERS PRETTY MUCH LIKE THAT WOULD BE READING THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST TODAY....
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| 00:08:11 |
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ORDER. AND THEN READ THEM
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| 00:08:14 |
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AGAIN, AND MAGIC MARKER THEM, AND PUT THEM INTO PILES AND FIGURE OUT HOW THE NARRATIVE GOES. AND THEN OF COURSE LETTERS. ALL POLK'S LETTERS ARE BEING...
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| 00:09:13 |
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CLAY WAS LANKY AND TALL. POPE DID NOT HAVE THAT.
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| 00:09:18 |
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SMALL STATURE AND DRAB OF TEMPERAMENT I CALLED HIM. A STANDOFFISH KIND OF GUY. HE DID NOT LIKE PEOPLE VERY MUCH. HE WAS SELF RIGHTEOUS, A BIT OF SANCTIMONY,...
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| 00:10:26 |
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A WIG AND WAS SELECTED BY A PRESIDENT AND SUCCEEDED THE PRESIDENCY. BUT HE WAS THE RELEASE A WIG AND THE
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| 00:10:34 |
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WHIGS WERE VERY UPSET. -- HE WAS NOT REALLY A WHIG AND THE WHIGS WERE VERY UPSET. WHAT HE DID THAT WAS REMARKABLE AND BIG WAS THAT HE INITIATED THE...
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| 00:11:30 |
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WAS THAT HE STRATEGICALLY
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| 00:11:34 |
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WAS LIMITED. HE GOT HIMSELF INTO A LOT OF SCRAPES. HE GOT INTO UNFORTUNATE SITUATION, BUT TECHNICALLY BRILLIANT. AND THEREFORE MANAGED TO GET HIS ARMIES...
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| 00:12:09 |
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WHIG
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| 00:12:12 |
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STAND TODAY, AND WHAT PARTY? >> IT WOULD FOCUS ON CONCENTRATION OF POWER -- THEY WERE MORE IN FAVOR OF
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| 00:12:22 |
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CONCENTRATION OF POWER IN WASHINGTON THAT WOULD BE ALONG THE LIBERAL SIDE.
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| 00:12:28 |
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BUT WHAT WAS EMERGING WAS AN INCREASING CONSCIOUSNESS AND CONCERN ABOUT THE SLAVERY ISSUE
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| 00:12:37 |
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THE. THE WHIG PARTY WAS MORE OF THE VANGUARD OF PUSHING ON THE SLAVERY ISSUE. MANY WERE RAISING SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT SLAVERY, BUT THE ATTEMPT MISSOURI,...
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| 00:13:22 |
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SLAVE OWNER OR HIS PERSONAL LIFE, TO THE EXTENT THAT HE
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| 00:13:25 |
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WOULD HAVE LIKED. I THINK THAT IS A FAIR CRITICISM. >> AND WHAT IS HE DOING WRITING A REVIEW ON THE BOOK? I'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. >> I HAVE NEVER SEEN...
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| 00:13:51 |
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ALSOP WAS SORT OF HIS UNCLE AND HE LIKED THAT BOOK A LOT. HE TOOK
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| 00:13:56 |
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INTEREST IN THE FACT THAT I WAS WRITING A BOOK ON
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| 00:13:59 |
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PULP AND SEEMED TO LIKE THE BOOK A LOT. HE DECIDED
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| 00:14:01 |
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TO REVIEW IT, AND I WAS VERY PLEASED TO HAVE HIM DO SO. >> WE'VE GOT A CLIP FROM A 1996 INTERVIEW YOU AND I HAD ABOUT JOSEPH ALSOP. LET'S SEE IT. >>...
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| 00:14:27 |
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YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE LETTERS OF HIM WRITING TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY SAYING THAT HE WAS
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| 00:14:34 |
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THE GREATEST. >> IT SHOULD NOT THE ONE AND I THINK THAT MOST PEOPLE -- MOST
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| 00:14:43 |
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JOURNALISTS AND MOST OTHER PEOPLE WHO READ THIS BOOK WILL SAY, THERE IS A
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| 00:14:47 |
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LOT OF TRANSGRESSIONS YEAR. THIS GUY'S PURPORTING TO BE ATTACHED ANALYTICAL NEWS MAN AND HIS RELEASE SNUGGLING UP TO A LOT OF RESOURCES. BUT
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| 00:15:00 |
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HE WAS A COLUMNIST. HE WAS NOT AN OBJECTIVE REPORTER. THAT WOULD BE PART OF HIS DEFENSE, NO DOUBT. BUT FROM ALMOST THE VERY BEGINNING, JOE GOT VERY CLOSE...
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| 00:15:39 |
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JAMES POLK OR ANY PRESIDENT HAD TO HAVE A NEWSPAPER THAT WAS HIS SPOKESPERSON, HIS MOUTHPIECE. POLK HAD A REAL PROBLEM WITH THE PRESIDENT BECAUSE THE...
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| 00:15:53 |
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MAIN DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER SINCE JACKSON, DID NOT REALLY LIKE POLKA VERY MUCH. IT WAS RUN BY FRANCE'S BLAIR -- FRANCIS BLAIR. THERE BLARES FROM MISSOURI,...
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| 00:17:17 |
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IS THE RULE THAT WE TRY TO FOLLOW. DON GRAHAM IS UP THAT TRADITION, NOT A PARTISAN PRESS. >>
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| 00:17:24 |
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YOU WENT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AND ALSO COLUMBIA, THAT MASTER'S DEGREE. YOU WROTE FOR THE "NATIONAL OBSERVER," WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT...
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| 00:17:47 |
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GOOD THE OBSERVER" IN 1962. MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT THE WRITING WAS PARTICULARLY SPARKLY. I LOVED WORKING FOR THEM. THE LAST DAY OF JUNE, 1977, THE CHAIRMAN...
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| 00:18:38 |
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THE ECONOMIST GROUP, WHICH ALSO OWNS "ROLL CALL." RUCKUSES ON CONGRESS AT DID "CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY QUALITY -- AS DID "CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
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| 00:18:56 |
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QUA."
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| 00:19:00 |
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I WAS THE ONE STANDING WHEN THE MUSIC STOPPED. MY JOB CAME TO AN END AND AT 6:00 THE NEXT MORNING, I WAS ON AN AIRPLANE TO SEATTLE TO DECOMPRESS. >>...
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| 00:19:40 |
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BELIEVED IN DIFFUSE POWERS. HE DID NOT BELIEVE AN ENTRENCHED POWER IN WASHINGTON.
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| 00:19:45 |
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THE POWER THAT REMAINS BECOMES ENTRENCHED. ONE-TERM FIT INTO THAT PHILOSOPHY. THAT IS FRIVOLOUS, BECAUSE IT'S GREAT MENTOR, AND JACKSON, SIR TWO TERMS...
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| 00:21:15 |
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SERVED AS SPEAKER FOR TWO TERMS. THEN HE WAS GOING
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| 00:21:21 |
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BACK TO TENNESSEE AND RAN FOR GOVERNOR. HE DID NOT WANT TO DO IT, BUT THE DEMOCRATS WERE LOSING POWER AND FORCE IN TENNESSEE, LARGELY AGAIN BECAUSE OF...
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| 00:24:08 |
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HE WAS NOT FOR
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| 00:24:10 |
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THE ANNEXATION FOR TAXES. ANY
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| 00:24:14 |
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PARTY TODAY WANTING TO
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| 00:24:19 |
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PUT TARIFFS INTO THE MIX? >> NOT SO MUCH. THEY ARE A BIG ISSUE TODAY. FREE TRADE BS DIED THOSE
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| 00:24:30 |
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WHO ARE CALLED PROTECTIONIST. THEY DO NOT LIKE THAT TERM. RIGID FREE-TRADE
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| 00:24:41 |
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VERSUS THOSE RECALL PROTECTIONIST. THEY DO NOT LIKE THAT TERM. REPUBLICANS ARE ALWAYS IN FAVOR IN REDUCING THEIR RATES, DEMOCRATS ARE LESS IN FAVOR...
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| 00:25:48 |
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HOW DID HE GET TO BE VICE- PRESIDENT? >> HE WAS FROM THE NORTH AND POLE WAS FROM THE SOUTH. IN THOSE DAYS YOU
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| 00:25:55 |
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HAD TO HAVE BOTH. HE
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| 00:25:59 |
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WAS NOT USED MUCH BY POLL. HE WAS A NONENTITY AS VICE PRESIDENT.
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| 00:26:05 |
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HE HAD
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| 00:26:10 |
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| 00:26:12 |
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A LARGELY AND DISTINGUISHABLE CAREER AND I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM AFTER THAT. >> THE MOST INTERESTING THING IS THAT THAT IT DROPS OFF. HE IS...
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| 00:26:38 |
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AND THE MEXICAN WAR WHICH HE MANEUVERED THE COUNTRY INTO, IN WHICH HE PRESIDED OVER FOR TWO YEARS, HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A BRIEF
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| 00:26:47 |
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WAR. IT WAS A LONG WAR AND IT SAPPED HIS BANDING AND BROUGHT HUGE CONCERNS AND GREETS TO HIM. AS A RESULT OF THAT, I THINK HE LOST HER RESISTANCE. HE...
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| 00:27:29 |
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LAWYER AND THE LEGISLATURE. IT WAS LOOKING FOR TO HIS RETIREMENT.
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| 00:27:34 |
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BUT HE WAS SICKLY TOWARD THE END OF HIS
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| 00:27:38 |
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PRESIDENCY, AND ON HIS WAY BACK TO TENNESSEE, WHICH
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| 00:27:41 |
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BEGAN THE DAY AFTER INAUGURATION, AND MANY BEGAN TO REVIVE A LITTLE BIT AND WAS REFURBISHING HIS HOUSE. AND THEN HE TOOK A TURN FOR THE WORSE AND VERY...
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| 00:28:15 |
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TENNESSEE, A MAN, WOMAN, AND OUT
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| 00:28:17 |
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OF THE CAUCASIAN RACE WAS KILLED BY INDIANS ATTACK EVERY 10 DAYS OR SO. IT WAS A VERY DANGEROUS PLACE, BUT HIS FAMILY HAD BECOME PROMINENT IN LAND. THEY...
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| 00:29:13 |
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GOVERNOR. HE SAW HER IN THE MIRROR,
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| 00:29:18 |
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A REFLECTION IN THE MIRROR, AND WAS IMMEDIATELY SMITTEN WITH THE VISAGE THAT HE SAW. HE MADE HIS WAY TO FIND HER, BUT THROUGH THE CROWD HE LOST HER....
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| 00:29:59 |
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1 IN BOTH. THE STUDY THE CURRICULUM OF LIBERAL
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| 00:30:05 |
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ARTS. >> YOUTUBE TWO YEARS TO DO THIS. WHEN DID YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND ON ANYTHING ABOUT WHOLE? >> I KNEW VERY LITTLE ABOUT POLK. THAT WAS A GOOD THING....
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| 00:30:30 |
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AS IT WAS BEING PRODUCED TO GIVE ME SOME GUIDANCE AND COUNSEL ON THE WAY. HE DESCRIBED POULT
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| 00:30:36 |
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AS A SMALLER THAN LIFE FIGURE WITH LARGER- THAN-LIFE AMBITIONS. WHAT STRUCK ME ABOUT POLK, I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHO WE WAS IN TERMS OF HIS TEMPERAMENT...
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| 00:31:23 |
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THE "YORK TIMES" BOOK REVIEW IS SHAUN WILLIAMS. DID YOU KNOW HIM? >> NO, I KNEW THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE PRODIGIOUS >> IN THAT ERA. >>
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| 00:31:37 |
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HE SAID THAT THIS IS A REFRESHING CHALLENGE TO THE NEW CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.
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| 00:31:43 |
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POLK WAS CERTAINLY AN EXPANSIONIST, BUT IN THIS HE MERELY REFLECTED THE PASSIONATE DESIRE TO PUSH THE COUNTRY EVER WESTWARD. >>
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| 00:31:52 |
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WHEN WORD FILTERED THROUGH THE
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| 00:31:58 |
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COUNTRY THAT TEXAS ANNEXATION WAS A POSSIBILITY, THAT THIS EXPANSION THIS DREAM REALLY EXPLODED ON AMERICA. THINK ABOUT THIS, BRIAN. THERE HAD NEVER BEEN...
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| 00:32:14 |
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AND OCEANS. AND THE IDEA OF TEXAS -- WE HAD THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE, AND NOW TEXAS MOVING US TOWARD THE PACIFIC, AND THERE WAS THE OREGON TERRITORY OF...
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| 00:33:31 |
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GOOGLE HAS GOT IT. YOU CAN WATCH IT ON YOUR COMPUTER. DID YOU READ IT ALL? >>
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| 00:33:39 |
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OH, YES, I READ IT ALL. MULTIPLE TIMES. I TOOK NOTES FROM IT. I CAME VERY CLOSE TO MEMORIZING IT. >> IF YOU HAD THE FOUR VOLUMES, HOW BIG WAS IT? >>
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| 00:33:53 |
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EACH WAS 500 PAGES. >> YOU THAT 2000 PAGES OF
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| 00:34:01 |
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TYPED DIARY. >> >> JAMES BUCHANAN
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| 00:34:10 |
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WAS CONSIDERED OUR WORST PRESIDENT.
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| 00:34:16 |
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VERY DISLOYAL TO POLK. AND HE HAD AN INABILITY
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| 00:34:21 |
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TO FIRE THE MAN. HE CANNOT ABIDE FACE-TO-FACE CONFRONTATION. HE WAS
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| 00:34:30 |
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ALMOST COWARDLY FACE-TO- FACE, AND I DO NOT THINK THAT WAS AN UNFAIR CHARACTERIZATION. I DO NOT RECALL WHAT WE WERE -- >> LET ME GO TO THE POINT --...
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| 00:35:06 |
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HE GOES BACK TO HIS OFFICE THAT NIGHT AND HE WRITES THE WHOLE THING OUT. AND THEN HE SAYS, WELL, NOW THAT I HAD DONE THIS, I WILL CONTINUE TO DO THIS....
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| 00:35:20 |
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TIMES TYPE PAGES, INCLUDING EXTENSIVE DEPICTIONS OF CONVERSATIONS THAT HE HAD WITH VARIOUS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND OTHERS, DIPLOMATS AND OTHERS. IT WAS...
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| 00:36:13 |
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FIRST PART -- THE FIRST YEAR, I TEND TO DO IT IN STAGES. THE FIRST YEAR I TOOK
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| 00:36:18 |
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POLK UP TO THE POINT WHERE HE WAS ELECTED. I RESEARCHED AND WROTE THAT. AND IN THE
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| 00:36:27 |
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NEXT YEAR, I RESEARCHED THE REMAINDER FOUR YEARS OF THE POLK PRESIDENCY.
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| 00:36:34 |
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THE MAIN PART OF THE BOOK. AND THEN I GOT INTO THE DIARY AT THAT POINT. >> WHAT DID YOU START TO SENSE IN READING THE DIARY, ABOUT HIM AS A PERSON, AS...
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| 00:37:01 |
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QUALITY THAT WAS NOT ATTRACTIVE. -- HE HAD A SELF-PITYING QUALITY THAT WAS NOT ATTRACTIVE.
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| 00:37:11 |
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ALL OF THESE PEOPLE TRYING TO THWART ME IN WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT IS THE THEME THAT RAN THROUGH AND NOT A VERY APPETIZING...
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| 00:38:55 |
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INAUGURAL PROCESSION. HE HAD NO INTENTION OF DOING, BECAUSE IT WAS VERY UPSET ABOUT THE ELECTION. HE DESPISED AND JACKSON, BUT JACKSON WAS A GIANT OF...
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| 00:39:14 |
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IT RAINED ALL DAY DURING THE INAUGURATION. QUINCY ADAMS WATCHED FROM A DISTANCE, AND THEN PUT RIGHT COMMENTS, MANY OF THEM QUITE POINTED, IN HIS DIARY...
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| 00:39:52 |
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RUN AGAINST EACH OTHER.
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| 00:39:53 |
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AND THAT SEEN IN THE OVAL OFFICE,
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| 00:39:56 |
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OR WHAT EVER THE OFFICE WAS, WHY DID HE VISIT HIM? >> I DO NOT THINK I KNOW.
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| 00:40:03 |
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IT IS A TOUCHING SCENE TO MAKE, MAYBE THE MOST TOUCHING SCENE IN THE BOOK.
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| 00:40:07 |
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HENRY CLAY HAD BEEN A GREAT OPPONENT OF JACKSONISM, JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, BUT JACKSON DEMOCRATS, ALL OF HIS LIFE. HE HAD SOUGHT THE PRESIDENCY THREE...
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| 00:40:22 |
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THREE TIMES THWARTED, THE LAST TIME BY JAMES POLK WHO HE HAD NOT EXPECTED. POLK IT'S AS INTO THE MEXICAN WAR. HENRY CLAY HAS A SON, A WONDERFUL YOUNG...
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| 00:41:45 |
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MANNER --
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| 00:41:48 |
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HIS OROTUND IT AN ELABORATE MANNER -- HE LAYS A COMPLEMENT AMONG MRS. POLK. EVERYWHERE I GO, AND NOTHING BUT GOOD ABOUT HOW YOU'RE DOING. NOT SO MUCH...
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| 00:43:12 |
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HE WAS A MAN FOR HIS TIME. THERE IS VERY LITTLE THAT YOU CAN SAY THAT HE LEFT. HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE ALL LEAD
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| 00:43:27 |
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TWO WAY THE ADMINISTRATION AND OUR HISTORY. AND BOTH OF THOSE ADMINISTRATIONS, HARRISON AND THE TAIL OR ADMINISTRATION, WERE INTERRUPTED BY THE DEATHS...
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| 00:44:08 |
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THAT/CENTER WANTED HIM
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| 00:44:10 |
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TO CHANGE -- SCHLESSINGER 1 INTERCHANGE WAS WHEN WE HAD GONE TO MEXICO CITY BUT THEY WOULD NOT NEGOTIATE. WE COULD JUST TAKE OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY....
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| 00:45:30 |
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WE -- AND BETTER AS WE ARE EXPERIENCING TODAY. WE HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT. EARLY PART OF THE REPUBLIC, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING
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| 00:45:43 |
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THE PAMPHLETS, VERY NASTY AND BITTER. EVERYTHING LEADING UP TO THE CIVIL WAR, WE HAD A CANING ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE. THE DISTINGUISHED SENATOR...
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| 00:46:42 |
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ENSURE CURRENCY STABILITY. >> LET'S TALK ABOUT T THAT ONE BRIEFLY. DURING JACKSON STATE, THERE WAS THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES -- THE BANK OF THE UNITED...
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| 00:47:08 |
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HE WOULD HATE WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. >> IN MANY WAYS. BUT EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE HAD TO BE SOME KIND AGENCY FOR STABILITY, AND FOR REPOSITORY...
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| 00:47:30 |
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BANKS, PROMPTLY LABELED
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| 00:47:33 |
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JACKSON'S PET BANKS. THIS WAS AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE GOVERNMENT ENTITY THAT WOULD TAKE CARE OF THOSE TWO THINGS. JOHN NOTES THAT THAT LASTED UNTIL THE CREATION...
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| 00:49:41 |
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WANTED ALL OF THE OREGON
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| 00:49:43 |
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TERRITORY, WHICH WENT UP TO 54- 40. SO THEY WANTED IT ALL. 54-40 OR FIGHT. IT WAS VERY DEFT DIPLOMACY. >> THAT CONGRESS WAS CONTROLLED BY WHAT PARTY?...
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| 00:50:16 |
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FOUR IS ACQUIRING CALIFORNIA. WHAT DOES THAT
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| 00:50:20 |
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MEAN? >> IT WAS PART OF MEXICO AS WAS THE SOUTHWESTERN TERRITORY. I BELIEVE THAT AS SOON AS POLK -- HE NEVER SAID THIS PUBLICLY. SNC SAID PRIVATELY
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| 00:50:32 |
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THAT HE WANTED TO ACQUIRE CALIFORNIA, THAT IS A TIPOFF THAT POLK INTENDED, IF NECESSARY, AND HE PROBABLY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE NECESSARY, TO HAVE A WAR...
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| 00:50:44 |
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MEXICO. OTHER PRESIDENTS HAD TRIED TO PURCHASE CALIFORNIA AND THE MEXICANS WERE NOT INTERESTED. I THINK THAT THAT SORT OF TIPPED OFF THE ASTUTE PURSUER...
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| 00:51:28 |
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MEANING POLK. HE IS A BEWILDERED, CONFOUNDED, AND MISERABLY PERPLEXED MAN. GOD GRANT HE MAY BE ABLE TO SHOW THERE IS NOT SOMETHING ABOUT HIS CONSCIENCE...
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| 00:52:14 |
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BIOGRAPHY IN HISTORICAL TERMS, IT IS IRONIC THAT HE WOULD BE SO OPPOSED TO THIS WAR ON MORAL GROUNDS, WHEN IN FACT HE BECAME A WAR PRESIDENT, MORE SIGNIFICANT...
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| 00:53:18 |
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HIS OPPOSITION HAD THROWN AWAY HIS PROSPECT OF HAVING ANOTHER TERM.
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| 00:53:22 |
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THE BOILERS ON THE MEXICAN WAR, WHAT DID POLK HAVE TO DO WITH THAT? WHAT WAS THE END RESULT? >> ONE WEEK AND NEXT TAXES, MEXICO CONSIDERED THAT TO BE...
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| 00:53:54 |
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THREATENED TO DECLARE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES AGREE THAT LEADS TO HUGE TENSIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. POLK SENT AN ARMY TO THE RIO GRANDE...
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| 00:55:07 |
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BOOK, ALSO. I BELIEVED IT WAS SOMEWHERE IN THE
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| 00:55:10 |
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NEIGHBORHOOD OF 20 MILLION? I'M NOT THAT IT REMEMBERING FIGURES ANYMORE. >> ANYMORE? >> I USED TO BE BETTER. >> NOW YOU
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| 00:55:23 |
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ARE NOW WORKING AT CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY ANYMORE, WHAT ARE YOUR
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| 00:55:27 |
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PLANS? >> I AM LOOKING FOR ANOTHER HORSE TO RIDE THREE PARTIES AND WITHIN A WEEK FOR TWO, I CAN BE IN A POSITION TO ANNOUNCE THAT I WILL
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| 00:55:37 |
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BE BECOMING AN EXECUTIVE OF ANOTHER PUBLISHING COMPANY. >>
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| 00:55:40 |
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WHAT ABOUT WRITING BOOKS?
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| 00:55:44 |
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AND LET ME ASK IT THIS WAY. IF YOU HAD TO CHOOSE A CHARACTER THAT YOU LEARN ABOUT IN THIS
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| 00:55:49 |
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BOOK TO WRITE ANOTHER BOOK ON, WAS THERE IN THE BODY BIG ENOUGH AND WHO WILL IT BE? -- ANY ONE BIG ENOUGH, AND IT WOULD IT BE? >> NO ONE STRUCK A FANCY...
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| 00:56:03 |
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I HAVE A BIGGER IDEA. I SEEM TO NAVIGATE VERY WELL TO THE 19TH CENTURY, SO MY NEXT BOOK COULD BE KEEPING ME THERE. IT WILL BE SOMETHING RELATED TO THE...
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| 00:56:20 |
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YOUR PERSONALITY AND JAMES PAUL, HOW WOULD YOU HAVE GOT ALONG AT DINNER? >> I TELL PEOPLE THAT IF YOU AND I WERE AT A BAR HAVING A DRINK AND WE NOTICE...
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| 00:56:40 |
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AS A REPORTER, I WOULD HAVE GOT
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ALONG WITH HIM BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD SOURCE. SANCTIMONIOUS PEOPLE ARE NOT GOOD SOURCES TO REPORTERS. I THINK I WOULD HAVE ADMIRED HIM IN...
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TO NOT ON C-SPAN, THE PRIME MINISTER'S QUESTIONS WITH THE DEPUTY LABOUR LEADER. A LITTLE BIT LATER, ANOTHER CHANCE TO SAY ROBERT MERRY TALK ABOUT HIS...
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