American History Series: Jefferson Moves to Cut Debt, Spending

The opposition Federalist Party warned that Thomas Jefferson's financial program would crush the nation.
11 June 2008

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By eighteen hundred and one, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia had already done much for his country. He wrote the Declaration of Independence in seventeen seventy-six. He served as America's first ambassador to France and its first secretary of state. Now he would govern the nation.


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This is program #37 of THE MAKING OF A NATION


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