Much of the American Population still a problem. Okay. So, weve talked about the extent of drinking. We need to talk about what it was that early americans were drinking. So here are the options. You have to think about what were gentlemen drinking and what were Common People drinking. Of these options up here, what did gentlemen of the early republic prefer . Gentlemen like John Marshall . Madiro, which is that strong, imported wine. Its pretty expensive, has a punch but not nearly as powerful as what Common People preferred. Of the options there, what did Common People prefer . Youre thinking beer because youre thinking in your own time. What do you think of those choices would be the most popular for common men in america of 1830 . Whiskey. Whiskey, far and away. Remember we talked about the whiskey rebellion, how people were upset about the federal government putting a tax on whiskey because that really hit home. That was a preferred item of consumption. Now, thats a good question,
Because i was always unable at the time to keep any of these characters straight but, of course, the main character was Richard Nixon. And complex and impenetrable and not understandable but youve done about as good a job as anyone of trying to understand the kind of tortured mind that led us to this national crisis. And to look at nixons activities even post watergate as a way of interesting him. So tell us a little bit about nixon and what compelled him to do these things from your point of view. Some talk about when did watergate begin . Was born in this little town in yorba linda, california, where he was born. Now, i say this with some empathy. I think he was trapped in his own personality, in his own hangups. And hangup is too light. But i dont do any psychobabble. This was a man who all his life felt that everybody else was getting a break and they all had more advantages than he did and he had to show them that he was going to be he went out for football he couldnt run or throw
Them with the alcohol. It was so for example, a traveler reported quote, an election in kentucky lasts three days. During that period whiskey and apple toddy flow through our cities and villages like the uphradiies through ancient babylon. A number of runner were busily employed driving voters. Now today there are laws if youre promoting a candidate you have to be a certain distance from the polling place and youre not allowed to be pressing alcohol on potential voters but there were no such laws in the early republic. George washington was one of the most successful politicians of his time in virginia because he understood a practice known as treating which is that a candidate should host a barbecue in the run up to the election, invite all of the voters of the county to come to his barbecue and provide them with free food, these heaping slabs of smokes and salted meat and all the alcohol they could drink. Now, the belief at the time was that a candidate that is so generous is proving
Going on in iran. Theyre not really pleased with iran, the shias anyway, but they despise it. They dont want iran to get the bomb. If they do, they will get the bomb and you can count on that and i can understand that. So what is going on is the speech that president obama gave on israel in which he started by saying the borders should be based on the 1967 lines. Do you recall that . He said thats what the borders should be based on between israel and palestine, talking about palestine as though its a nation. Do you realize what hes saying . He is saying before he won the war in israel, it would be like saying to David Cameron David Cameron saying to us we want to go back to the 1775 lines. I hope you understand, yes, of course that is what we should do, or we would be sitting right now we are sitting in southern california, we would be sitting in northern mexico if we went back to the lines preceding the u. S. mexican war. Too bad but thats how borders come about, by winners and loser
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