James Monroe

And he got fired.

And James Monroe played the role of Marco Rubio.

And he went from Secretary of State to Secretary of War.

And the first thing he did is call Andrew Jackson, who was begging to get in.

And he got fired.

And James Monroe played the role of Marco Rubio.

And he went from Secretary of State to Secretary of War.

And the first thing he did is call Andrew Jackson, who was begging to get in.

The Marquis de Lafayette, 18.

James Monroe, 18.

Henry Lee III, 20.

Alexander Hamilton, 21.

Ronald Reagan also won 49 states in 1984, which means he won every swing state.

George Washington, if you want to go all the way back there, was unanimous in terms of his electoral college vote victory, as did James Monroe.

I know these things.

I kind of am a dork when it comes to presidential elections.

The writer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was a Virginian.

I don't mean to rehash all of this thing, but if you look at American history, the soup, with the exception of the Adamses, of course, but the super majority of any notable, important founders... um or framers right first supreme court chief justice george marshall or john marshall not george marshall that was his that was his descendant uh john marshall from virginia um framer of the constitution james madison from virginia um you know what is it uh uh the the you had the virginia dynasty of president james monroe gave his name to the entire hemisphere uh in terms of the policy enacted by the um by the united states and kind of remains in the minds of everyone everyone knows what the monroe doctrine is um you know it's it's it's it's virginians you know i you know virginians they settled the midwest they settled the kentucky they settled tennessee they settled in in in the deep south in a lot of places and yes they came other settlers also came from places like georgia and south carolina sure yes but it all like there is a center there's a core there is a you know like like there is a a source to the american identity to everything that comes from it um Almost everyone who you talk to will kind of agree that the more authentically American side of the Civil War was the Confederacy and Robert E. Lee and most all of that war.

every Confederate state gave like almost 80% of their manpower, but Virginia, it gross, not net grow or not, not, not, not per capita.

Rather Virginia gave gross, more blood treasure and all of that, mostly because it had more to give.

In fact, maybe I can't afford to keep the whole Louisiana territory.

By the time James Monroe comes to say, I need this, and one way or another, I'll leave it without it, he was basically told by Napoleon, shake my hand, you got it, but it's going to be $15 million.

It's not going to be $4 million.

And it's going to be three times of where it's going to sell you.

I really do.

Real quick, who's the most underrated American?

James Monroe.

James

In fact, maybe I can't afford to keep the whole Louisiana territory.

By the time James Monroe comes to say, I need this, and one way or another, I'll leave without it, he was basically told by Napoleon, shake my hand, you got it, but it's going to be $15 million.

It's not going to be $4 million.

And it's going to be three times of what it's going to sell you.

I really do.

Real quick, who's the most underrated American?

James Monroe.

James

Then came the geopolitical twist that completely changed the stakes of their journey.

Over in Paris, American diplomats Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe were originally just trying to buy New Orleans and the Floridas for up to $10 million to secure port access for Western American farmers.

Instead, they stumbled into a geopolitical fire sale.

Napoleon found his grand plans for a Caribbean empire crumbling due to the crushing defeats of the Haitian Revolution.