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Why Am I Telling You This? with Bill Clinton cover image

The Presidency and the People: How to Form a More Perfect Union

Why Am I Telling You This? with Bill Clinton

CHAPTER

The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement

In our first forty years, we had six presidents, four from virginia. Good thing for you, we didn't have an anti trust law. In the nineteenth century, the anti slavery movement really rose to gain traction. By the opening shots at fort sumter, ironically, many of the formerly disparaged emigrants found themselves in places like new york city promoting sedition against the national government. Sound familiar? So presidents had to deal with it. They came to a head in the civil war, and thank god abraham lincoln won. Heended slavery, preserved the union, vindicated government of by and for the people With a dramatically enlarged conception of who the people were.

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