Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Without Cesar Rodney's vote, Delaware would be counted as a stalemate, and the vote might fail.
And Rodney was not a physically particularly well man.
He was described as, quote, the oddest looking man in the world.
Tall, thin, and slender as a reed.
Pale.
His face is not bigger than a large apple.
Severe asthma and a long battle with facial cancer had left him disfigured and frail.
But he rides through the night, 80 miles on horseback, thunder echoing above him,
Rain pouring down on him.
Mud everywhere.
And he makes it just in the nick of time to vote on July 2nd.
Still in his riding clothes, Rodney arrives, a scarf wrapped around his scarred face.
And he casts the deciding vote for independence.
Legend has it, he said, quote,
So then if the vote happened on July 2nd, why do we commemorate July 4th?
What's the big deal about July 4th?
So basically between the 2nd and the 4th, now you have Congress has to approve this language that the Committee of Five came up with.
The vote on the 2nd established, yes, they are declaring independence.
But they needed to have the language in that declaration approved by Congress, which wouldn't happen until the 4th, after more tweaking.
And in some cases, a lot more than tweaking.
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