Thomas Ricks
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222 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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sent him off to Boston without a letter of recommendation or introduction to anybody.
Now, this may have been, I think, because Adams was making eyes at the guy's wife, which is a constant problem in this era.
Thomas Jefferson is so striking to me.
He's an Epicurean.
He is an anti-Stoic.
He's into the avoidance of pain, the pursuit of happiness.
And he's constantly pursuing married women through his life.
And I think it's the classic Epicurean recipe.
It's all the rewards of romance without any of the risk of a permanent entanglement.
Well, because they succeeded.
You know, we're looking at people who made it to the presidency, who successfully designed the country.
There are other people who, in many ways, were spectacular failures.
I would say Patrick Henry is a spectacular failure.
Alexander Hamilton succeeds.
He's basically Washington's prime minister.
But pretty soon after that, considers himself a failure.
By the end of the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton says to a friend, there is no place in this country for me.
It's a terrible thought.
I mean, here he has come to this country.
He's helped design the country.
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