April 22, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
American Trail, The American Trail blazed in blood, defended in Blood,
(00:27):
Chapter three, The Louisiana Purchase, Two others.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thomas Jefferson is president. To me, his like a father.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That he chose me Meriwether Lewis to be his private
secretary is a matter of great pride to me. There
is nothing I wouldn't do for him. In the year
eighteen three, a nightmare had gripped us all. We groped
through darkness on the very brink of a war for
which we were not prepared.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
A president had said, if.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
France attempts to occupy New Orleans, it must be at
the cost of war. Oh. In that dreadful hour, there
was nothing I could do except pray that the President's
efforts to preserve this country would be blessed. There had
(01:27):
been a storm that morning. I stood outside the White House.
I was about to leave.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
When he's there in Fella, in Fella. I watched him walk.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Towards me, a complete stranger, a big, red faced man
with a look of the frontier about him.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He wore an old three cornered hat. His tunic was
travel state.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I reckon, you must be Captain Merry with her Lewish
young Man. Yes, sir, you're a praying secretary.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To the President.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yes, will Am Chuck Duncan from the Mississippi Country in
a very important business with the President.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There was no question about Duncan seeing the President. Mister
Jefferson sees almost everyone. He regards himself as the humble servants.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Of the people. Mister President.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
There I stood, sir, right there in the Earlians, only
two weeks ago, watching an American ship sailing into the harbor,
and I couldn't believe what I saw happening under my eye.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, no, no, no more. May can't come no more.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You're not to close in American shipping, not that you Colin.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You hear me say what if you don't, you're asking
for proble. Hey, the Spaniards had closed the Arlians to us,
and we can I get along without it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's so important. It's her life, Merriweather, mister President.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
While we're sitting here, mister Duncan might care for a
little refreshing certainism now, mister Duncan, I confess I'm a
little vague about the importance of New.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Orleans to you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
William Caesar, I'm spokesman for of American farmers along the Mississippi. No,
this situation is this. It takes too long to send
our goods overland. It's quicker and cheaper to send them
down the river to the Orleans, then ship them up
north to New York and bust. I see, mister Jefferson,
we cannot survey with that New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I'm for marching and it is making it an American port.
Let's send troop there in cultury.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, now, mister Duncan, will you let me inquire into
this matter? A local dispute between Spanish authorities at New
Orleans and a few American farmers along the Mississippi. That's
all it seemed to me to the president. Then one day,
(03:46):
come in, come in. Oh it's you, Merriweather.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Come over here, my boy. I was looking at this
silly bird.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Do you think you're sick? No, sir, Well, he won't
utter a sound. He wants to be let out of
his cage. Oh no, no, he's being punished. Then just
ignore him, sir, You pay too much attention to him.
Confound me Merriweather. After all, I shouldn't let myself be
dominated by a mocking good.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Now should I nevous?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You? Have something for me, I dispatch from Paris. Well,
then read it, my boy, your eyes are better than mine.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
There he was it. It reads, despite the nials here
in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte has forced the Spanish government to
see New Orleans and the entire Louisiana territory to France.
What the French expect to take possession in the early
part of next year.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I think I must go for a little walk merriwell.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Alone, sir, if if you don't mind, my boy, I
want to think about this, this most dreadful news. Next day,
the President met with some of the delegates from the
Mississippi country. I stood apart. The President had forgotten to
put shoes on. He still wore his slippers and his
(05:06):
favorite red waistcoat. Seemed a little crumpled. Gentlemen, gentlemen, the
prospect of Bonaparte building a colonial empire at our back
door is a frightening one.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We'll never be safe, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If the French established themselves on this continent, the Americans
would be a battleground for European army.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I fear so so. It was Bonaparte who ordered the
Urlian's closest yes a hostile an.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Indication of French policy towards the sister President.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
We mustn't allow Bonaparte to have New Orleans or any
part of it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yet. Hey, let's make sure and take the Rians right away.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We'll talk about it at an active aggression measure of
self preservation.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Said, we had no choice if we could arrive at
some peaceful settlement with Bonaparte.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, you cannot trust a man like that.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That if we tried to buy New Orleans by it
in that way, we could control the Mississippi country, even
if the French occupied Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We can't buy New Orleans, mister President.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The Constitution does not pervade for the purchase of foreign territory.
Mister Jefferson, we cannot ignore the Constitution, the very document
that you yourself helped to ray.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I don't think the Constitution intended us to remain defenseless.
The President took the matter to Congress. Finally, mister Livingstone,
our minister to France, was instructed to explore the possibility
of our.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Buying New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Summer passed autumn winter. The snow was deep outside the
White House.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sir, you shouldn't be standing out here in the cold.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh, very weather. Come now, put this scarf on, sir. Oh,
now that's very good of you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Thank you. Hadn't you better go inside. I'm worried. I'm
very worried. My boy. We wait and we waited. Still
there's no word from Paris. I don't think Bonaparte will
sell us New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I can't give up hope. Time's getting short. Yeres, the
French will soon be in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Won't they? Yes? And that mustn't happy, Sir, Merriwether.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Bonaparte needs money, needs it for his campaigns Now I wonder,
I wonder if he saw in front of him, let's say,
two million dollars in gold. Congress very reluctantly granted the money.
Mister Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris with it, then
(07:44):
began another wait. The weeks dragged by, and still no
sign that Napoleon was tempted by the sight of the
two million dollars. It seemed to me that during these
days the president grew older. Then one morning, sit down, Merriwether,
Thank you, sir. Have you heard you breakfast?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Not yet?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Now you must eat my boy for yourself. Some coffee,
Have something to eat. I'll have some coffee. Sir Monroe's
getting no further than livings toill live.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I've been thinking about it. According to latest.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Reports, you will write about one thing, Sir Bonaparte does
need money. There's something else. Suppose he should occupy New
Orleans against our will? Could he hold it against England?
Outside of Europe? France has had bad luck against the
British meriwether. I am going to try to force Buonaparte
(08:36):
into selling us New Orleans. How Sir, I intend to write.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Him a leisure.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So the President wrote the letter. It was sent, to
some extent made public. I feel that the United States
must warn the leaders of France. But should that nation
persist in taking New Orleans, it will.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Mean war OOO. And from the moment Franz sets foot.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
In the Orleans, the United States will ally herself with
Great Britain.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Congress was stunned.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The President had committed us to war and had threatened
an alliance with a very country from which we had
so recently won independence. The nation knew there was no
turning back now, and faces were grim and bitter. There
was a day when the man Duncan came to the
White House. I met him in the foyer.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Captain Lewis has the President got UIs mine.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Mister Duncan. I won't hear words against him. I had
to see her say, Dave not in my present, Sir.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
We have preserved our independence from their British Crown for
twenty five years in order for mister Timmerson's disaventered it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I take exception, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Oh, well, you can take all the exception you want,
for I'm a man who can defend his words.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Then defend them, Sir, We're a pistol. Since i'd in
acarious word, a pistol suits me, Captain Lewis, Mister President,
Captain Lewis, return your pistol to its proper place. So, yes, sir,
I forbid this matter to be carried any further. That's
an order, Captain. Yes, sir, mister Duncan, if you have
(10:22):
something to talk about, come with me to my study.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Pray, mister President, fraid you wish to harm this young
man who so devoted to ye in this moment, Amy,
we'd be ashamed of myself, for he knows you're better
than any one.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He must have very good reason to thrust in your wisdom. Ah,
But the fear of.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
A war for which we were not ready darkened the country.
The President seldom slept. He would wonder about the White House,
sometimes coming into my room, where I've been working on
his correspondence. Am I interrupting you, my boy? No, sir,
Let me sit down for a moment by the window. Sir,
it's an ice spring day, Merriweather. They're saying I've gone
(11:04):
beyond my presidential authority. I know. They say I've trifled
with the constitution. You did the only thing possible, sir.
For still, I've gambled the fate of this country. General
Washington gambled at two. Yes, yes, that comforts me.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
A little war waiting the days weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Bonaparte remained silent, and then mister President, word from Paris.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Let me see it, my boy, let me see it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
From Monroe, he says, Sir, I am authorized to inform
you that Bonaparte will sell New Orlean list of fantasy
entire Louisiana territory, and nothing less than that, nothing less
for the sum total of fifteen million dollars fifty fifteen
million done. But we've won, Merriwether, We've won the President's
(12:04):
plan had worked, but the amount required was staggering.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
The nation was divided, the entire Indiana territory. What do
we want with it? But we hand Orleans in the
Mississippi River man, and a useless wilderness in the party.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
The Northwest Territory was a useless bit of country too
a few years back.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No look at it anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
The Constitution's been hacked to pieces by this man and
the White House.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
You're hurting your hid man. The constitutions intact.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So it's the country.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Not a drop of blood was shed a man but
for Thomas Kefferson will certainly be at war, and the
country will be destrayed, and their.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Den no constitution. Mere.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Whether this bird is beginning to talk to me again.
He seems to be in a much better mood he
should be, sir. You know I'm bewildered. I don't know
what we're going to do with this immense wilderness we've required, merewether.
I've heard remarkable stories from the Indians about Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
They say that there.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Are strange beasts in prehistoric animals. I would judge we
could explore it, sir. I think we should. The ideas
quite firstly, May eighteen hundred three, the American frontier was
(13:26):
expanded to the Rocky Mountains. The Constitution had withstood its
first major test, its meaning had been broadened a little,
the need of the time had been met, and soon
out of that vast savage country that was called the
Louisiana Territory, new states were born in This has been
(13:55):
the third chapter of the story of the American Nation,
brought to you by the Lady Auxiliary to the veterans
of foreign Wars.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Next week, another story to make you
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Proud of this great nation of ours, as we follow
the American trail.
American Trail, The American Trail blazed in blood, defended in Blood,
(00:27):
Chapter three, The Louisiana Purchase, Two others.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Thomas Jefferson is president. To me, his like a father.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That he chose me Meriwether Lewis to be his private
secretary is a matter of great pride to me. There
is nothing I wouldn't do for him. In the year
eighteen three, a nightmare had gripped us all. We groped
through darkness on the very brink of a war for
which we were not prepared.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
A president had said, if.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
France attempts to occupy New Orleans, it must be at
the cost of war. Oh. In that dreadful hour, there
was nothing I could do except pray that the President's
efforts to preserve this country would be blessed. There had
(01:27):
been a storm that morning. I stood outside the White House.
I was about to leave.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
When he's there in Fella, in Fella. I watched him walk.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Towards me, a complete stranger, a big, red faced man
with a look of the frontier about him.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
He wore an old three cornered hat. His tunic was
travel state.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I reckon, you must be Captain Merry with her Lewish
young Man. Yes, sir, you're a praying secretary.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To the President.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yes, will Am Chuck Duncan from the Mississippi Country in
a very important business with the President.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
There was no question about Duncan seeing the President. Mister
Jefferson sees almost everyone. He regards himself as the humble servants.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Of the people. Mister President.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
There I stood, sir, right there in the Earlians, only
two weeks ago, watching an American ship sailing into the harbor,
and I couldn't believe what I saw happening under my eye.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, no, no, no more. May can't come no more.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You're not to close in American shipping, not that you Colin.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You hear me say what if you don't, you're asking
for proble. Hey, the Spaniards had closed the Arlians to us,
and we can I get along without it.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's so important. It's her life, Merriweather, mister President.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
While we're sitting here, mister Duncan might care for a
little refreshing certainism now, mister Duncan, I confess I'm a
little vague about the importance of New.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Orleans to you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
William Caesar, I'm spokesman for of American farmers along the Mississippi. No,
this situation is this. It takes too long to send
our goods overland. It's quicker and cheaper to send them
down the river to the Orleans, then ship them up
north to New York and bust. I see, mister Jefferson,
we cannot survey with that New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I'm for marching and it is making it an American port.
Let's send troop there in cultury.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, now, mister Duncan, will you let me inquire into
this matter? A local dispute between Spanish authorities at New
Orleans and a few American farmers along the Mississippi. That's
all it seemed to me to the president. Then one day,
(03:46):
come in, come in. Oh it's you, Merriweather.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Come over here, my boy. I was looking at this
silly bird.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Do you think you're sick? No, sir, Well, he won't
utter a sound. He wants to be let out of
his cage. Oh no, no, he's being punished. Then just
ignore him, sir, You pay too much attention to him.
Confound me Merriweather. After all, I shouldn't let myself be
dominated by a mocking good.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Now should I nevous?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You? Have something for me, I dispatch from Paris. Well,
then read it, my boy, your eyes are better than mine.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
There he was it. It reads, despite the nials here
in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte has forced the Spanish government to
see New Orleans and the entire Louisiana territory to France.
What the French expect to take possession in the early
part of next year.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I think I must go for a little walk merriwell.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Alone, sir, if if you don't mind, my boy, I
want to think about this, this most dreadful news. Next day,
the President met with some of the delegates from the
Mississippi country. I stood apart. The President had forgotten to
put shoes on. He still wore his slippers and his
(05:06):
favorite red waistcoat. Seemed a little crumpled. Gentlemen, gentlemen, the
prospect of Bonaparte building a colonial empire at our back
door is a frightening one.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
We'll never be safe, sir.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
If the French established themselves on this continent, the Americans
would be a battleground for European army.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I fear so so. It was Bonaparte who ordered the
Urlian's closest yes a hostile an.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Indication of French policy towards the sister President.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
We mustn't allow Bonaparte to have New Orleans or any
part of it.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yet. Hey, let's make sure and take the Rians right away.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
We'll talk about it at an active aggression measure of
self preservation.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Said, we had no choice if we could arrive at
some peaceful settlement with Bonaparte.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, you cannot trust a man like that.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That if we tried to buy New Orleans by it
in that way, we could control the Mississippi country, even
if the French occupied Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
We can't buy New Orleans, mister President.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
The Constitution does not pervade for the purchase of foreign territory.
Mister Jefferson, we cannot ignore the Constitution, the very document
that you yourself helped to ray.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I don't think the Constitution intended us to remain defenseless.
The President took the matter to Congress. Finally, mister Livingstone,
our minister to France, was instructed to explore the possibility
of our.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Buying New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Summer passed autumn winter. The snow was deep outside the
White House.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sir, you shouldn't be standing out here in the cold.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh, very weather. Come now, put this scarf on, sir. Oh,
now that's very good of you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Thank you. Hadn't you better go inside. I'm worried. I'm
very worried. My boy. We wait and we waited. Still
there's no word from Paris. I don't think Bonaparte will
sell us New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I can't give up hope. Time's getting short. Yeres, the
French will soon be in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Won't they? Yes? And that mustn't happy, Sir, Merriwether.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Bonaparte needs money, needs it for his campaigns Now I wonder,
I wonder if he saw in front of him, let's say,
two million dollars in gold. Congress very reluctantly granted the money.
Mister Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris with it, then
(07:44):
began another wait. The weeks dragged by, and still no
sign that Napoleon was tempted by the sight of the
two million dollars. It seemed to me that during these
days the president grew older. Then one morning, sit down, Merriwether,
Thank you, sir. Have you heard you breakfast?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Not yet?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Now you must eat my boy for yourself. Some coffee,
Have something to eat. I'll have some coffee. Sir Monroe's
getting no further than livings toill live.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I've been thinking about it. According to latest.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Reports, you will write about one thing, Sir Bonaparte does
need money. There's something else. Suppose he should occupy New
Orleans against our will? Could he hold it against England?
Outside of Europe? France has had bad luck against the
British meriwether. I am going to try to force Buonaparte
(08:36):
into selling us New Orleans. How Sir, I intend to write.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Him a leisure.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So the President wrote the letter. It was sent, to
some extent made public. I feel that the United States
must warn the leaders of France. But should that nation
persist in taking New Orleans, it will.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Mean war OOO. And from the moment Franz sets foot.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
In the Orleans, the United States will ally herself with
Great Britain.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Congress was stunned.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
The President had committed us to war and had threatened
an alliance with a very country from which we had
so recently won independence. The nation knew there was no
turning back now, and faces were grim and bitter. There
was a day when the man Duncan came to the
White House. I met him in the foyer.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Captain Lewis has the President got UIs mine.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Mister Duncan. I won't hear words against him. I had
to see her say, Dave not in my present, Sir.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
We have preserved our independence from their British Crown for
twenty five years in order for mister Timmerson's disaventered it.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I take exception, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Oh, well, you can take all the exception you want,
for I'm a man who can defend his words.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Then defend them, Sir, We're a pistol. Since i'd in
acarious word, a pistol suits me, Captain Lewis, Mister President,
Captain Lewis, return your pistol to its proper place. So, yes, sir,
I forbid this matter to be carried any further. That's
an order, Captain. Yes, sir, mister Duncan, if you have
(10:22):
something to talk about, come with me to my study.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Pray, mister President, fraid you wish to harm this young
man who so devoted to ye in this moment, Amy,
we'd be ashamed of myself, for he knows you're better
than any one.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He must have very good reason to thrust in your wisdom. Ah,
But the fear of.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
A war for which we were not ready darkened the country.
The President seldom slept. He would wonder about the White House,
sometimes coming into my room, where I've been working on
his correspondence. Am I interrupting you, my boy? No, sir,
Let me sit down for a moment by the window. Sir,
it's an ice spring day, Merriweather. They're saying I've gone
(11:04):
beyond my presidential authority. I know. They say I've trifled
with the constitution. You did the only thing possible, sir.
For still, I've gambled the fate of this country. General
Washington gambled at two. Yes, yes, that comforts me.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
A little war waiting the days weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Bonaparte remained silent, and then mister President, word from Paris.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Let me see it, my boy, let me see it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
From Monroe, he says, Sir, I am authorized to inform
you that Bonaparte will sell New Orlean list of fantasy
entire Louisiana territory, and nothing less than that, nothing less
for the sum total of fifteen million dollars fifty fifteen
million done. But we've won, Merriwether, We've won the President's
(12:04):
plan had worked, but the amount required was staggering.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
The nation was divided, the entire Indiana territory. What do
we want with it? But we hand Orleans in the
Mississippi River man, and a useless wilderness in the party.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
The Northwest Territory was a useless bit of country too
a few years back.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No look at it anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
The Constitution's been hacked to pieces by this man and
the White House.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
You're hurting your hid man. The constitutions intact.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So it's the country.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Not a drop of blood was shed a man but
for Thomas Kefferson will certainly be at war, and the
country will be destrayed, and their.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Den no constitution. Mere.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Whether this bird is beginning to talk to me again.
He seems to be in a much better mood he
should be, sir. You know I'm bewildered. I don't know
what we're going to do with this immense wilderness we've required, merewether.
I've heard remarkable stories from the Indians about Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
They say that there.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Are strange beasts in prehistoric animals. I would judge we
could explore it, sir. I think we should. The ideas
quite firstly, May eighteen hundred three, the American frontier was
(13:26):
expanded to the Rocky Mountains. The Constitution had withstood its
first major test, its meaning had been broadened a little,
the need of the time had been met, and soon
out of that vast savage country that was called the
Louisiana Territory, new states were born in This has been
(13:55):
the third chapter of the story of the American Nation,
brought to you by the Lady Auxiliary to the veterans
of foreign Wars.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Next week, another story to make you
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Proud of this great nation of ours, as we follow
the American trail.
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
Dateline NBC
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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!