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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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The Origins of the ATF
In 1790, the fledgling United States was less than a decade old and it was already teetering on bankruptcy. George Washington's Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton had a plan for how to pay those debts down. He reached a deal with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to place the capital at Washington, DC. The specifics of how that deal was struck are mysterious because… Yeah, I'm not proud. I won't do it again.
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