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The goal of each of The Thomas Jefferson Hour® programs is to tease out the truth of each topic in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson - the founding father educated in Enlightenment ideals and considered by many to be the visionary of the founding of our nation.
Humanities scholar and author, Clay S. Jenkinson, adopts the persona of Jefferson each week to comment on current events and answer questions you may have about Jefferson's thoughts on any and all topics. Clay has portrayed Thomas Jefferson for more than two decades. He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities highest award, then called the Charles Frankel Award, for his humanities-based first person interpretation methodology.
"When the Landscape is Quiet Again"
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In response to requests from listeners, and a promise made on an eariler show, following is the Govenor Arthur A. Link speech.
When the Landscape is Quiet Again
We do not want to halt progress
We do not plan to be selfish and say “North Dakota will not share its energy resource.”
No, we simply want to insure the most efficient and environmentally sound method of utilizing our precious coal and water resources for the benefit of the broadest number of people possible.
And when we are through with that and the landscape is quiet again,
when the draglines, the blasting rigs, the power shovels and the huge gondolas cease to rip and roar!
And when the last bulldozer has pushed the last spoil pile into place, and the last patch of barren earth has been seeded to grass or grain,
let those who follow and repopulate the land be able to say,
our grandparents did their job well.
The land is as good and, in some cases, better than before.
Only if they can say this will we be worthy of the rich heritage of our land and its resources.
Governor Arthur A Link
October 11, 1973
Many requests have been sent for Clay's Recommended Reading about Thomas Jefferson. Following is the the list from show 676 "Current Events"
Clay Jenkinson offers the following list of his favorite books about Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
by Merrill D. Peterson
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph Ellis
The Sage of Monticello
by Dumas Malone
Thomas Jefferson: The Strange Case of Mistaken Identity
by Alf J. Mapp
Thomas Jefferson
by Albert J. Nock
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
by Fawn Brody
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