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#1540 The Jeffersonians in Power

Listening to America

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The Magic of Jefferson

Jefferson would have been reelected to a third term had he not insisted on going back to model cello. He then was able to name his successor, which doesn't happen very often. If you're the author of the Declaration of Independence, you have a magic in American life that nobody else is going to have. A lot of other people could have written something we'd still be talking about 250 years later.

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