Bob Crawford

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602 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jun

Bob Crawford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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put so much weight, and mother.
His mother was a powerful figure in his life as well.
In fact, you know, really caused havoc on his marriage.
You know, his mother really did.
They were imposing people.
They were strong-willed people.
They had sacrificed so much to help found the United States that they groomed him to rise to the top.
But I think...
More so, I think what John Quincy Adams gets out of it, how he was raised, after he loses the presidency, he feels rejected by the American people.
And we know this because he kept a diary.
He kept a diary that runs over 14,000 pages long, and he starts it when he's a teenager, and he ends it right before his death at the age of 80.
And the diary itself is a psychological clue into how he was raised and who he was as a person, because he would chastise himself if he missed a day, right?
He would have, there are days in the diary where he's actually making up, he missed a couple of days, but he has to, he, it's like very Puritan, right?
He has to do this.
He has to keep this diary.
It's more than he wants to keep the diary.
It's that there's something inside him that he started it, and it's a shame upon him if he stops it, right?
It'll be a failure upon him if he doesn't write in this diary and account for every single day of his life in some manner.
Some of these entries go on for pages.
Some of them are sentences.
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