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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He wants a naval academy.
He wants federally funded roads, bridges, and canals, what we call infrastructure.
He wants a national university, which, by the way, was the dream of George Washington himself.
And he wants lighthouses of the sky, which are telescopes, scientific technology.
And in his first annual, annual message to Congress, what we today refer to as the State of the Union, he writes to Congress and he says, basically your constituents probably don't want to spend tax money on the stuff, but we cannot be palsied by the will of our constituents.
And what he's essentially saying is, I don't care what your constituents want, nor should you.
I know best.
This is what's right for the country.
So John Quincy Adams lays out the 20th century America in the 19th century when America is not ready for it for many reasons.
Palsy by the will of your constituents becomes the rallying cry like Basket of Deplorables was in 2016.
So what happens?
So Adams has this failed presidency.
The American people, they just don't get him.
He can quote Roman poetry.
He can quote Greek philosophy.
The common man wants someone who can speak plainly to him.
And Adams never gets that part while he's president.
Jackson wins in a bitter but...
Doesn't win by a landslide, but he wins convincingly.
He beats Adams in 1828.
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