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Mr. Jefferson -What would the founding fathers think of a socialist President?

Mr. Jefferson -What would the founding fathers think of a socialist President?

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John Williams asks Thomas Jefferson what the founding fathers would think of a socialist President.

Clay Jenkinson is a public humanities scholar, the author of ten books, and one of the leading Jefferson scholars in the United States. He is the author of Becoming Jefferson’s People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century. You can learn more about his work at www.jeffersonhour.com. He lives on the Great Plains of North Dakota.

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Mr. Jefferson -What would the founding fathers think of a socialist President?

Mr. Jefferson -What would the founding fathers think of a socialist President?

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