Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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Like everywhere he goes, I found these journals at the Library of Congress where he like goes to a play and people come out and just ask him question after question.
Like nobody cares about the play.
Intermission, let's just fire him.
Like what does a buffalo taste like?
Are the native people cannibals?
Like they just keep firing question after question at him because he's like a national hero.
And so one of the new things I found was a letter from John Quincy Adams that nobody had seen before.
And this is in this Washington, D.C.
period when Lewis is finally back.
And so John Quincy Adams was a senator at this point.
Like, he had had dinner at the White House with Lewis before.
Like, they knew each other a little bit.
And Adams says that he sat down to have dinner with Lewis again after the expedition, and Adams is writing to his wife.
And Adams says, I didn't even recognize this guy.
Like, I knew who I was supposed to meet for dinner, and I could not recognize him.
And then Adams says he looks like he's aged 15 years.
Hmm.
And so, you know, previous accounts have sort of theorized, like, what did the expedition do to Lewis?
But, like, thanks to John Quincy Adams, we know what the expedition did to Lewis.
Like, that letter, I think, is the linchpin for my entire interpretation of him and why I believe the suicide is just the overwhelming likelihood.
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