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#1533 A Conversation with Hamilton Scholar Hal Bidlack

Listening to America

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Thomas Jefferson and the Thomas Jefferson Hour

Lieutenant Colonel Hal Biddlack of Colorado Springs has been debating he Hamilton I Jefferson for a quarter of a century or more in many venues. He says at the end of his life Hamilton feels like his power has gone but that's not reallyHamilton's goal in life and yet he probably felt that his vision of America was being repudiated by the great success of the Virginia Jeffersonians. But what he couldn't know was that in the long run his vision was going to triumph and Jefferson's was going to be ghettoized as a kind of a quaint Virgilian idea of the family farmer and the chosen people of God. In our time America's more about getting and spending which is

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