Bob Crawford
speaker
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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And there was absolutely some ego involved in this.
But he did it because in his DNA, whatever his parents wanted him to be president, but what Adams got out of that, their sacrifice for the country, is that you serve.
Adams is appointed to his first diplomatic post by Washington, and he serves in Congress alongside Lincoln.
So when we're in school, we learn the Revolution, we learn the Civil War.
They seem like completely...
you know different they're different eras but you have adams who my argument in the book is he's the man standing in the gap he's hold upholding the the in one hand he's got the declaration of independence and the other hand he's got the constitution and he is holding up these founding principles at a time when the country is going through what i call it's tortured adolescence
The 80 year theory.
I think you're right.
I mean, I think there's no doubt about it.
And we are like, we can't peek around this corner, Anthony.
We don't know what, what we're heading towards.
I, I,
I'm a realist, and people tell me that really I'm a pessimist.
Being a realist, you're a pessimist.
But I'm a little more optimistic than I've ever been that it ain't going to be pretty, and it's not going to be perfect, but we're going to get to 300.
We're 250, we're going to get to 300.
I think we're going to muddle through this somehow.
And none of it has been pretty.
But by the way, you mentioned the Civil War and the ending of slavery.
Adams writes in his diary in 1820, and this was not for public consumption.
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