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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I mean, history doesn't repeat.
Maybe it rhymes.
I don't know.
I think that really it's human nature doesn't change is kind of the secret to this whole thing.
But Adams appointed to his first diplomatic post by George Washington.
serves in the diplomatic corps under his father's administration.
He becomes a senator from Massachusetts.
He bucks his own party to support Thomas Jefferson with the Louisiana Purchase.
And then with the Embargo Act, James Madison appoints him the first minister to Russia.
And then the head of the commission to negotiate the end of the war of 1812, James Monroe appoints him to secretary of state, maybe our most successful secretary of state ever.
John Quincy Adams negotiates the treaty that brings Florida into the union.
He's the architect of the Monroe doctrine.
It is with this backdrop that he's running for president in 1824.
The problem is this.
He's the establishment.
He's the old guard at a moment when the right to vote has now trickled down from white white property owners to white white men.
Right.
In general.
And so you have a nation that's moving west and south and you have a new grassroots movement.
you know, farmers and tradesmen, they're getting the right to vote.
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