Neil Gorsuch
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so July 7th was the day when Adams wrote those words.
He thought we would be celebrating July 2nd with fireworks forever.
You know, he's wrong about that.
We celebrate the 4th when they approved the declaration, which I actually think, Megan, is kind of interesting, right?
We don't celebrate the revolution.
We don't celebrate the beginning of it, the end of it, like you might think we would, or the war.
We don't celebrate Plymouth Rock.
We celebrate a document.
We celebrate a document with those three great ideas that speak to every one of us.
Yeah.
Our illustrator, Chris Ellison, wrote,
really is historically sensitive, but also able to bring these people to life in a beautiful way.
And that deathbed scene of Jefferson is exactly how it's been recorded historically correctly.
Those people were around his bed at the time he passed.
And I think their story is kind of inspiring, particularly in our times, right?
We think we have disagreements and
We do, and I don't want to belittle them.
But so did Adams and Jefferson.
They fought tooth and nail.
They said some pretty terrible things about each other while they each was in office.