America's Most Brilliant President (and it isn't Thomas Jefferson) With Charles Goodyear

This American President

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.6 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Who do you think was America's most brilliant president? Some might say Thomas Jefferson, while others say Theodore Roosevelt. Author Charles Goodyear has a different answer: James A. Garfield. In this episode, we interview Mr. Goodyear about his new...

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of This American President. I'm Richard Lim, your host, and I just wanted to say thank you to our fans who listen and especially those who have just signed up to support us on Patreon or Stripe. And the latest supporters, I just wanted to give them a shout out. Their names are Marilyn Altbush, Jirev Desai, I'm sorry if I'm butchering your name,
0:23.0	and John Larson. And for a longtime supporter, his name is Justin Jackson. We really appreciate
0:29.0	your support. It means so much to us, and we're grateful to all of our listeners. And if you want to
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0:39.7	ThisAmericanPresident.com, and you can join our premium channel where you don't have to listen to any
0:44.8	commercials. We have a lot of exciting episodes planned in the future, and we're interviewing some
0:50.2	amazing guests. We're currently in the series on President Theodore Roosevelt and President
0:56.5	Woodrow Wilson. We have a series coming up on Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, so we're
1:01.6	kind of going in sequence as far as the early 20th century presidents. I recently had a very
1:06.9	cool experience. I've done this podcast for six years, and it's been an amazing journey.
1:12.1	It's also been a labor of love. And it culminated in a very cool experience where I actually
1:17.6	got to participate in a history channel documentary, the history channel. And I'm going to be
1:24.1	coming out with information on that. We're going to do a little bit of an episode on that where I get to talk about it,
1:29.1	but it was the recent episode on President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
1:32.3	the recent documentary on President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the History Channel.
1:35.9	You ever have time to check that one out?
1:37.5	The first episode is actually online.
1:39.7	It's on the History Channel website.
1:42.0	You can just Google FDR documentary History Channel, and you'll see it.
1:46.9	I'm in it pretty briefly, but it was a great experience, loved every moment of it.
1:51.5	I'll be talking about it in a future episode.
1:53.5	But again, thank you to our supporters, especially for those who've signed up on Stripe and Patreon,
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