Listening to America Podcast Transcripts
Listening to America · 553 episodes with transcripts
Listening to America aims to "light out for the territories," traveling less visited byways and taking time to see this immense, extraordinary country with fresh eyes while listening to the many voices of America's past, present, and future.
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#1710 President Jefferson Reads the Declaration
June 29, 2026
David Horton (0:00)
Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's special edition of Listening to America podcast. I'm David Horton. I get the pleasure of being the host of this program. And sitting across from me virtually is the great Clay Jenkinson. We had a wonderful time with President Thomas Jefferson as we recorded a show about…
Clay Jenkinson (0:23)
Well, you kind of tricked me, let's put it that way, because I knew we would be talking about the 4th of July. I knew we'd be talking about Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. I knew we would be talking about America at 250, and to what extent the preamble of the Declaration is the mission statement of…
So we went through it. I think it's really, really healthy. I hope everyone will. And by the way, when I talked to Joe Ellis around the 4th of July for a program, he said, I asked him, what would you ask people to do on the 4th of July? And he said, I want you all to read at least the preamble out loud to your…
David Horton (2:14)
Well, we kind of do that for them if they listen to the program and they can participate, because it was great to hear Mr. Jefferson kind of go through these things that we know, but we don't revisit very often. And to review some of that and have a conversation about why did Jefferson say this? What was the point…
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