Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It goes on to say, and acknowledging indebtedness to your encouragement for the opportunity of demonstrating the availability of the science of aeronautics in the service of this country.
I am your excellency's obedient servant.
So that message goes into the White House.
And believe it or not, Lincoln invites him to dinner.
Because Lincoln, it turns out, is an early adopter.
He's really into new tech.
Yeah, yeah.
And so he goes into the White House, and he says they talked late into the night.
But he explains, like, you know, we should use them for spying capability.
He explains, like, you know, I think we can get up there and we can see things that no one has ever seen before.
And understand in those days, intel was gathered by putting a, you know, one or two or three people on individual horses and just sending them off into the woods to sort of scout.
Right.
Right.
And Lincoln got it.
He gave Thaddeus a letter of introduction to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, who was at that time the head man of the war.
So he has this letter of introduction.
He goes over there to Winfield Scott's tent and his assistant, the orderly says, well, the general's busy right now.
So Lowe comes back a couple hours later and says, he's still busy.
Comes back a few hours later and says, he's at lunch.
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