Craig Fehrman
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One of the things I did was really crunch the numbers on how much it cost.
And the official price tag was like $38,000, which is a crazy number today.
It doesn't seem like anything.
But back then, it was a lot of money.
But that number's wrong.
Like once I went back and like actually checked the numbers and did the work, it was closer to $100,000.
So then to try to like understand what that meant.
That same accountant was just running numbers on the Iran war.
I think you might be correct.
Yeah.
We can talk about the Missouri River as the new Strait or the old Strait of Hormuz if you want to do that too.
But yeah, so like the $100,000, if you look at that as like a percentage of federal spending, Jefferson spent as much on Lewis and Clark as we spend on NASA today.
So that's absolutely true.
So that's the scope we're talking about.
Like when I called the book, this vast enterprise, it's not just vast in terms of the territory they cover.
It's, it's vast in terms of like the conception, how many people are involved.
I'm serious.
Yeah.
Well, give me the rest of the episode.
Maybe I can persuade you.
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