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#1545 Live from Radford University

Listening to America

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The Importance of Paying Off the National Debt

I felt that George Washington and John Adams were taking the country in a kind of monarchical royalist, aristocratic direction. I was prepared to spend about $6 million to buy New Orleans. Instead I wound up buying an empire for $15 million. It took our Western boundary all the way down to the Rocky Mountains. With a single stroke of pen, I made the greatest land sale in human history.

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