Best LBJ Foundation Podcasts (2024)

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The Impact of Massive Federal Spending and Debt 31:29

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of out-of-control federal spending and debt on the American people. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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1913: A Critical Year in the Loss of Liberty 32:22

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss how 1913 brought into existence the federal income tax and the Federal Reserve System. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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The Impact of LBJ’s Great Society 28:38

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program, including Medicare and Medicaid, on American society. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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The New Deal 36:06

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the tremendous impact that President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal had on American life. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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Abolish the Minimum Wage 28:52

2M ago28:52

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss why California’s new law raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour in fast-food establishments is so bad. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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"Dewey Defeats Truman" A conversation about the election of 1948 with A.J. Baime 55:04

2M ago55:04

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New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime joined us to discuss the famous outcome of the election of 1948. Baime is the author of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World (2017), The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War (2014), Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and …

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The Virtues of Unilateral Free Trade 33:02

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the benefits of unilaterally ending all restrictions on trade by the U.S. government — that is, without negotiations or treaties with other nations. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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Two Important Insights of Friedrich Hayek 34:42

2M ago34:42

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the importance of Friedrich Hayek’s concepts of “spontaneous order” and “the use of knowledge in society.” Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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FDR’s War on the Bill of Rights 40:04

3M ago40:04

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob, Richard, and noted author David Beito discuss President Franklin Roosevelt’s war on civil liberties and the impact that his war has had on freedom today. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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The Impact of FDR’s New Deal 30:47

3M ago30:47

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the monumental impact that President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal had on American life. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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The Impact of the Industrial Revolution 28:23

3M ago28:23

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the monumental impact of the Industrial Revolution on American society. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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Previewing the 2024 Presidential Election with Richard Hasen & Joshua Sellers 1:01:33

3M ago1:01:33

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Last month, Mark Updegrove moderated a discussion at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University, entitled "A presidential election with legal issues like no other." There, he interviewed two legal experts about the legal challenges faced by the GOP's leading presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, one of the many unpre…

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The Futility of Immigration Reform 30:09

3M ago30:09

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the cause of America’s decades-old, longstanding, perpetual immigration crisis. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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The Impact of Austrian Economics on Marxism 35:08

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the impact of the Austrian school of economic thought on the labor theory of value and Karl Marx’s exploitation theory. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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The Impact of Karl Marx’s Labor Theory of Value 31:58

4M ago31:58

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss Karl Marx’s labor theory of value and his related concept involving the exploitation of workers. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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The Impact of Karl Marx on Classical Economics 28:51

5M ago28:51

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss Karl Marx in the context of the classical school of economics. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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Bastiat’s Concept of What is Seen and Unseen 28:27

5M ago28:27

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss Frederic Bastiat’s famous essay about the broken window fallacy. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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A Conversation With Secretary Robert Gates 1:02:43

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Robert Gates served in public life for over 50 years. He began his career as an entry-level CIA analyst and would rise the ranks to become director of the agency from 1991-93. In 2006, he was named Secretary of Defense by President George W. Bush as our nation waged war in Afghanistan and Iraq. He would retain the position for President Barack Obam…

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The Classical Economists: Frédéric Bastiat 27:11

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the significance of the classical economist Frederic Bastiat. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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The Classical Economists: Jean-Baptiste Say and John Stuart Mill 39:42

6M ago39:42

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In this segment of the Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ideas of two more classical economists: Jean-Baptiste Say and John Stuart Mill.

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The Classical Economists: David Ricardo 42:12

6M ago42:12

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the significance of the classical economist David Ricardo. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson 58:34

6M ago58:34

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Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College, and author of six major books about US history in the 19th Century. Among her best-known works are To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, and How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. In the past few years, R…

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The Classical Economists, Part 1 34:12

6M ago34:12

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the foundational philosophy and ideas that led up to the classical economists of the 19th century. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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Where is the Care and Compassion in the Welfare State? 33:46

6M ago33:46

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard explain why there is no genuine care or compassion in America’s welfare-state way of life. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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A Conversation with Jake Tapper 51:13

7M ago51:13

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Jake Tapper is the chief Washington anchor for CNN, whose shows “The Lead with Jake Tapper” and “State of the Union” are fixtures of broadcast news. Tapper has been covering politics in Washington for over 25 years--from the Clinton Administration through the Biden Administration. He’s also a best-selling author of five books, three of which are wo…

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Why No Price Controls to Deal with Inflation? 30:40

7M ago30:40

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss price controls, which government officials have historically used to combat the government’s inflationary debasement of the currency. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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"He becomes a genuine believer" A conversation about Abraham Lincoln with Josh Zeitz 48:08

7M ago48:08

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President Lincoln is perhaps the most analyzed and studied of all America's 46 presidents, the subject of numerous outstanding biographies. Yet some aspects of his life remain difficult to fathom, not least his religious views. In his new book, Lincoln's God, Josh Zeitz teases out Lincoln's complicated religious outlook, and makes clear just how im…

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The Government’s Antitrust Suit against Google 33:29

7M ago33:29

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ramifications of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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"A key moment of our civil rights narrative that's never gotten its due" A conversation about Hubert Humphrey with Samuel Freedman 52:32

7M ago52:32

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Samuel Freedman is a Professor at Columbia University and the award-winning author of ten books. In Into the Bright Sunshine he looks at the life of Hubert Humphrey, who would become Senator from Minnesota, Vice President to Lyndon Johnson, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1968, who lost his bid for the presidency to Richard Nixon by less…

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The Federal Reserve and Monetary Growth 36:07

8M ago36:07

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard examine the Federal Reserve’s target of 2 percent for monetary growth. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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"A pathologically reasonable person in power" A Conversation about President Garfield with C.W. Goodyear 40:38

8M ago40:38

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C.W. Goodyear is a writer and historian based in Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, he published his first book, President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, which has earned effusive praise for meticulous research and eloquent writing about a president who has often flow under the radar. Goodyear shines a light on James Garfield’s presidency but …

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Best of With the Bark Off 2023 (Part 1) 32:37

8M ago32:37

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Late last year we did a “best of” year-end podcast that focused on top moments from With the Bark Off. It was no easy task to choose those moments given the sheer volume of great material we had to draw from, but it was fun and proved to be very popular among our listeners. We decided to make this a biannual thing to reflect on those moments that s…

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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 26:50

9M ago26:50

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ramifications of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.By Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling

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"Like all great leaders, he's learning and changing" A Conversation about MLK Jr. With Jonathan Eig (Pt 2) 24:44

9M ago24:44

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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a giant of American history, a figure celebrated in classrooms and public discourse for his towering contributions to the struggle for civil rights. And yet Jonathan Eig's biography, King: A Life, rooted in abundant newly available sources, is the first full-fledged study of King to be published in decades. Ei…

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"King had the perfect voice and message for the moment" A Conversation with Jonathan Eig about MLK (Part 1) 36:49

9M ago36:49

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Jonathan Eig is a highly accomplished journalist and author. His bestselling biography of the boxer Muhammad Ali, entitled Ali: A Life, won the PEN America Literary Award and was the basis for a PBS series about Ali's life and times. Eig is also author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. Eig joins us for an enlightening conversation …

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Affirmative Action in the Free Society 30:42

10M ago30:42

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In this week’s Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on affirmative action. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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"Bush never insisted on a careful assessment" A conversation with Melvyn Leffler about the Iraq War 55:26

10M ago55:26

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Melvyn Leffler is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Virginia and one of the world’s leading scholars of U.S. foreign relations. His many award-winning books include For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, The Soviet Union, and the Cold War and A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold …

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What's Wrong with Socialism? 37:42

10M ago37:42

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In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and RIchard Ebeling discuss all the things wrong with socialism. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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The Solution to Homelessness 30:23

10M ago30:23

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In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob and Richard discuss the cause of homelessness in America and provide the solution. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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"Jackie wanted a larger life" A conversation about Jackie Bouvier Kennedy with Carl Sferrazza Anthony 51:14

10M ago51:14

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy remains one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century - an iconic First Lady who brought elegance, sophistication, and a cultivated cultural sensibility to the White House. But her formative early adult years provide a glimpse into a headstrong, confident young woman of great intelligence and ambition trying to …

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The Dark Legacy of World War II 35:15

11M ago35:15

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In this week's Libertarian Angle, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the dark legacy of World War II.

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"Nixon and Kissinger thought they would succeed" A Conversation about Peacemaking in Vietnam With Lien-Hang T. Nguyen 48:35

11M ago48:35

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Dr. Lien-Hang Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. Besides Hanoi’s War, Dr. Nguyen is co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. She’s now writing a definitive history of the Tet Offensive, the communist attacks in 1968 that changed the course of the war for the United States.…

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"Consequences for the nation had to take a back seat" A Conversation with Rebecca Boggs Roberts About Edith Wilson 41:59

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Rebecca Boggs Roberts is an award-winning educator and historian who has written extensively about women’s history and the women’s suffrage movement. Her books include The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World and Suffragists in Washington, DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote. She recently published Untold Power: The Fasc…

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Why Keep Waging the War on Drugs? 32:19

11M ago32:19

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What’s the point of having a war on drugs? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss this brutal government policy that has destroyed lives and liberty. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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"If you want to valorize Reagan, look at the convictions he held" A conversation with Will Inboden 52:43

12M ago52:43

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Dr. William Inboden is a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. His new biography of Reagan, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World, was published in November 2022 and named as one of the top political books of th…

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Separate School and State 34:07

12M ago34:07

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What is the solution to the educational morass in which we find ourselves? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they discuss America’s public education system. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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The Debt Ceiling Circus Again 36:40

12M ago36:40

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What will be the outcome of the latest debt-ceiling controversy? Join FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling as they parse the recent wrangling over federal spending. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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The Evil of the Income Tax 36:16

12M ago36:16

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What has been the impact of the income tax on the lives and liberties of the American people? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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"He finds himself in a job he never wanted" A Conversation about Gerald Ford with Richard Norton Smith 40:50

12M ago40:50

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Richard Norton Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian and the author of numerous books, including On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller, and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. Throughout his career, he has been the director of five presidential libraries, those of Abraham Lincoln, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenh…

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My Trip to Cuba 33:32

1y ago33:32

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FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger talks about his visit to Cuba and what effect an authoritarian state has on a people. Please subscribe to our email newsletter FFF Daily here.

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