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Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, Luck and Load. Michael

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Speaker 1: Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: There are cultural impediments to doing this work. Let's say

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Speaker 2: you work in the FBI. You know that one of

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Speaker 2: the two political parties is, let me put it nicely,

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Speaker 2: white supremacist adjacent at a minimum.

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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of people that are like, you

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Speaker 3: know what, like, let's go find the safe at white Boy.

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Speaker 2: We can find poor kids are just as bright and

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Speaker 2: just as talent as white kids.

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Speaker 4: This election has proven that this administration has proven painfully

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Speaker 4: in some ways, is that black people cannot save this

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Speaker 4: country from white folks.

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Speaker 1: We can't do it alone.

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Speaker 4: Right, If white folks aren't going to join in, if

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Speaker 4: white women aren't going to join in, if Latinos aren't

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Speaker 4: going to join in, we can't do it alone.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we will not back down in our pursuit of

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Speaker 3: racial justice. The antidote to anti blackness is to be

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Speaker 3: pro black, and we will do it unapologetically. The United

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Speaker 3: State government owes us a debt, and we need reparations.

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Speaker 5: That are politics that says like there are superior in

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Speaker 5: fear human beings just in the way to go.

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing.

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Speaker 5: That white people don't trust us to do because they

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Speaker 5: are so corrupt, you know, their thinking is so morally

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Speaker 5: and spiritually bankrupted.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're first. Here's what it takes. The black jobs.

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Speaker 1: I love his phrase, black jobs. Tell us a lot

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Speaker 1: about the band, how about his character. Just three and

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Speaker 1: a half years, we've created over true million new black

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Speaker 1: jobby Don't you're black up?

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Speaker 6: If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for

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Speaker 6: may or Trump and you ain't black.

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Speaker 1: My brother, do it. You're black up.

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Speaker 3: But I also was on the ticket quite honestly, you know,

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Speaker 3: because I could code talk to white.

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Speaker 1: Guys watching football fixing their truck. Study we were talking

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Speaker 1: about the flu shot and how the studies show it

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Speaker 1: doesn't actually work. In fact, it kills more people than

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Speaker 1: it saves. Then in two thousand and eight, Cheryl Atkinson

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Speaker 1: did a piece on how top vaccine advocates were receiving

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Speaker 1: substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies.

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Speaker 7: Years now, parents have wondered if vaccines are linked to

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Speaker 7: conditions like autism and add Government officials and some scientists

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Speaker 7: say there is no connection, and they're often backed by

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Speaker 7: independent experts. But just how independent are they? You may

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Speaker 7: be surprised at what Cheryl Akison found when she set

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Speaker 7: out to follow the money.

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Speaker 8: There's some of the most trusted voices in the defense

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Speaker 8: of vaccine safety, the American Academy of Pediatrics, every Child

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Speaker 8: by Two, and pediatrician doctor Paul Ausitt. CBS News has

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Speaker 8: found these three have something more in common too, strong

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Speaker 8: financial ties to the industry whose products they promote and defend.

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Speaker 8: The vaccine industry gives millions to the Academy of Pediatrics

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Speaker 8: for conferences, grants, medical education classes, even help pay to

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Speaker 8: build their headquarters. The totals are kept secret, but public

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Speaker 8: documents reveal bits and pieces. Three hundred and forty two

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Speaker 8: thousand dollars was given to the Academy by Wyff, maker

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Speaker 8: of the new macawcle vaccine, for a community grant program.

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Speaker 8: Four hundred and thirty three thousand dollars was contributed to

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Speaker 8: the Academy by Merk. The same year the Academy endorsed

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Speaker 8: seventeen vaccines and a new five to one combo shot,

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Speaker 8: just added to the childhood vaccine schedule last month. Every

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Speaker 8: Child by Two, a group that promotes early immunization for

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Speaker 8: all children, admitst the group takes money from the vaccine

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Speaker 8: industry too, but wouldn't tell us how much. A spokesman

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Speaker 8: told us there are simply no conflicts to be unearthed.

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Speaker 8: But guess who has been listed as the group's treasurers,

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Speaker 8: unofficial from WYFF and a paid advisor to big pharmaceutical clients.

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Speaker 8: Then there's doctor Paul Offitt, perhaps the most widely quoted

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Speaker 8: defender of vaccine safety. He's gone so far as to

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Speaker 8: say babies can theoretically tolerate quote ten thousand vaccines at once.

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Speaker 8: This is how Offitt described himself in a previous interview.

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Speaker 1: I'm the chief of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: and a professor pediatricst at Penn's Medical School.

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Speaker 8: Doctor Offfitt was not willing to be interviewed on this subject,

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Speaker 8: but like others in our investigation, he has strong industry ties.

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Speaker 8: In fact, he's a vaccine industry insider. Doctor Offitt holds

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Speaker 8: a one point five million dollar research share at Children's

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Speaker 8: Hospital funded by Merk. He holds the patent on an

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Speaker 8: anti diarrhea vaccine he developed with Merk rod Tech, which

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Speaker 8: has prevented thousands of hospitalizations in the US, and future

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Speaker 8: royalties for the vaccine were just sold for one hundred

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Speaker 8: and eighty two million dollars cash. Doctor Offit's share of

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Speaker 8: vaccine profits unknown. There's nothing illegal about the possible conflicts

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Speaker 8: of interest, but as one member of Congress put it,

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Speaker 8: money from the pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of

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Speaker 8: those who hold himself out to be independent. The American

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Speaker 8: Academy of Pediatrics, every child by two and doctor Aufitt

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Speaker 8: wouldn't agree to interviews, but all told us they're upfront

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Speaker 8: about the money they receive and it doesn't sway their opinions.

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Speaker 8: Today's immunization schedule now calls for kids to get fifty

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Speaker 8: five doses of vaccines by age six. Ideally, it makes

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Speaker 8: for a healthier society, but critics worry that industry ties

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Speaker 1: Now, let's think about how this works. So we've got

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Speaker 1: a product to sell. Let's say we're the sellers of

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Speaker 1: chocolate candy bars, and people just start buying enough chocolate

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Speaker 1: to the public health officials, we say, we'll give you

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Speaker 1: give you all this money to say you need to

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Speaker 1: eat more of Ramones chocolate candy bars. In fact, that's

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Speaker 1: really the only way to save you. And we recommend

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Speaker 1: that schools don't allow children to come to school unless

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Speaker 1: they've eaten their Ramones chocolate candy bar. Universities, we recommend

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Speaker 1: that companies don't allow people to come in. We recommend

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Speaker 1: that hospitals not allow you to be admitted as a

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Speaker 1: hospital unless you've eaten your Ramones chocolate candy bar before long.

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Speaker 1: What happens, They sell a lot of chocolate candy bars,

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Speaker 1: don't they You think that might have affected Now. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't make the chocolate candy bar good for you. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't make the chocolate candy bar give you any health benefits.

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Speaker 1: And neither does the fact that top vaccine advocates are

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Speaker 1: When you stop and think about it that way, Michael

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Speaker 1: Berry glad in the system modern.

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Speaker 2: This day in.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty five, which makes it seventy years ago. Love

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Speaker 1: his grief was There were four different versions of this

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Speaker 1: the best Parker fixing up. But you knew that already

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Speaker 1: that it's Bill Hayes has went to number one, Western

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Speaker 1: Mars and Big Gun. I love the story of David Crockett,

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Speaker 1: but not for the reason that you might think. My

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Speaker 1: the name that they go by. But Crockett was so

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it matters today. David Crockett, who

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Speaker 1: died at the Alamo, and as a child, I was

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Speaker 1: He was Colonel David Crockett. But he was a hero

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Speaker 1: a Broadway musical about the exploits of Davy Crockett. But

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Speaker 1: more than all of those things, although of course they

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Speaker 1: Ron Paul in the telling, and not many people like this,

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Speaker 1: very few people. Indeed. It's because of a speech he gave,

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Speaker 1: and that speech came to be known as not yours

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Speaker 1: because you think of David Crockett as the legend and

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Speaker 1: those are wonderful aspects to the legend of David Crockett.

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Speaker 1: But while David Crockett was in Congress, there was a

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Speaker 1: And David Crockett did something very brave. He stood on principle,

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Speaker 1: a violation of the Constitution. Now, there is more to

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Speaker 1: But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way.

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Speaker 1: It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of.

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Speaker 1: contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those

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Speaker 1: who have none. The push of crops will be over

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Speaker 1: in a few days and we can then afford a

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Speaker 1: day for a barbecue. This is Thursday. I will see

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Speaker 1: to getting it up on Saturday week. Come to my

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Speaker 1: house on Friday and we will go together. And I

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Speaker 1: promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear

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Speaker 1: you well. I will be here. But one thing more

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Speaker 1: before I say goodbye, I must know your name. My

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Speaker 1: name is Bunce, not Horatio buns. Yes, well, mister Bunce.

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Speaker 1: I never saw you before, though you say you have

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Speaker 1: seen me. But I know you very well. I am

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Speaker 1: glad I've met you, and very proud that I may

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Speaker 1: hope to have you for my friend. It was one

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Speaker 1: of the luckiest hits of my life that I met him.

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Speaker 1: He mingled but little with the public, but was widely

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Speaker 1: known for his remarkable intelligence and incorruptible integrity, and for

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Speaker 1: a heart brimful and running over with kindness and benevolence

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Speaker 1: which showed themselves not only in words but in acts.

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Speaker 1: He was the oracle of the whole country around him,

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Speaker 1: and his fame had extended far beyond the circle of

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Speaker 1: his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met him before,

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Speaker 1: I had heard much of him, and but for this meeting,

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Speaker 1: it is likely I should have had opposition and had

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Speaker 1: been beaten. One thing is very certain. No man could

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Speaker 1: now stand up in that district under such a vote.

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Speaker 1: At the appointed time. I was at his house, having

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Speaker 1: told our conversation to every crowd i'd met and every

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Speaker 1: man I stayed all night with, and I found that

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Speaker 1: it gave the people an interest in a confidence in

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Speaker 1: me stronger than I'd ever seen manifested before. Though I

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Speaker 1: was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and under

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Speaker 1: ordinary circumstances should have gone early to bed, I kept

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Speaker 1: him up until midnight, talking about the principles and affairs government,

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Speaker 1: and I got more real, true knowledge of them than

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Speaker 1: i'd got all my life before. I have known and

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Speaker 1: seen much of him since or I respect him, No,

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Speaker 1: that is not the word. I reverence and love him

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Speaker 1: more than any living man. And I go to see

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Speaker 1: him two to three times every year. And I will

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Speaker 1: tell you if everyone who professes to be a Christian

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Speaker 1: lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does the

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Speaker 1: religion of Christ would take the world by storm. But

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Speaker 1: to return to my story. The next morning we went

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Speaker 1: to the barbecue, and to my surprise, found about a

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Speaker 1: thousand men there. I met a good many whom I

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Speaker 1: had not known before, and they and my friend introduced

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Speaker 1: me around until I got pretty well acquainted. At least

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Speaker 1: they all knew me. In due time, notice was given

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Speaker 1: that I would speak to them. They gathered up around

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Speaker 1: a stand and had been that had been erected for

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Speaker 1: the occasion. I opened my speech by saying, quote, fellow citizens,

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Speaker 1: I present myself to you today, feeling like a new man.

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Speaker 1: My eyes have lately been open to truths with which

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Speaker 1: ignorance or prejudice, or both had heretofore hidden from my view.

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Speaker 1: I feel that I can today offer you the ability

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Speaker 1: to render you more valuable service than I have ever

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Speaker 1: been able to render before. I am here today more

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Speaker 1: for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek

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Speaker 1: your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due

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Speaker 1: to myself as well as to you. Whether you will

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Speaker 1: vote for me is a matter for your consideration only.

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Speaker 1: I went on to tell them about the fire and

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Speaker 1: my vote for the appropriation, and then told them why

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Speaker 1: I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying,

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Speaker 1: and now, fellow citizens, it remains only for me to

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Speaker 1: tell you that the most of the speech you have

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Speaker 1: listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition

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Speaker 1: of the arguments by which your neighbor, mister Buntz convinced

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Speaker 1: me of my error. It is the best speech I

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Speaker 1: ever made in my life. But he is entitled to

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Speaker 1: the read it for it and now I hope he

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Speaker 1: is satisfied with his convert and that he will get

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Speaker 1: up here and tell you so. He came upon the

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Speaker 1: stand and said, fellow citizens, it affords me great pleasure

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Speaker 1: to comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have

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Speaker 1: always considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am

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Speaker 1: satisfied that he will faithfully perform all that he has

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Speaker 1: promised you. Today he went down, and there went up

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Speaker 1: from that crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett, as

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Speaker 1: his name never called forth before. I am not much

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Speaker 1: given to tears, but I was taken with a choking then,

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Speaker 1: and felt some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And

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Speaker 1: I tell you now that the remembrance of these few

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Speaker 1: words spoken by such a man, and the honest, hearty

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Speaker 1: shout they produced, is worth more to me than all

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Speaker 1: the honors I have received and all the reputation I

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Speaker 1: ever made, or shall ever make as a member of Congress. Now, Sir,

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Speaker 1: concluded Crockett, you know why I made that speech. Today.

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Speaker 1: There is one thing now to which I will call

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Speaker 1: your attention. You remember that I propose to give a

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Speaker 1: week's pay. There are in that house many very wealthy men,

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Speaker 1: men who think nothing is spending a week's pay, or

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Speaker 1: a dozen of them for a dinner or a wine party,

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Speaker 1: when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of

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Speaker 1: those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt

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Speaker 1: of gratitude which the country owed the deceased, a debt

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Speaker 1: which could not be paid by money, and the insignificance

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Speaker 1: and worklessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum is

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars when weighted against the honor of our nation.

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Speaker 1: Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money

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Speaker 1: with them is nothing but trash when it is to

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Speaker 1: come out of the people. But it is the one

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Speaker 1: great thing for which most of them are striving and

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Speaker 1: many of them sacric vice, honor, integrity and justice to

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Speaker 1: obtain it. And that, my friend, is why I name

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Speaker 1: my Soncroft. Exempleant Elvis has left for good men, thank you,

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Speaker 1: and good night