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In our previous episode, we ended with a funny story about Congressman John Jenrette trying to get his cousin, Dick Jenrette, an appointed position with the Carter Administration in a high enough spot to get a private government jet airplane. His cousin instead of asking to be Secretary of the Treasury or of Commerce, as John Jenrette had hoped, asked to be put in charge of historical preservation. John Jenrette laughed and said, "I could have kicked him!!"

No Airplane!!

It was obvious from the reaction of historian Ben Burroughs that Dick Jenrette had gone on to do some great things in which he was familiar. However, I was not, and I am betting neither are most of the listeners of this podcast.  So I did a little investigating on my own into who was Dick Jenrette? 

What I found was a very interesting side story, about a man from Raleigh N.C. , who went to New York, got into the investment banking business, grew his firm into the fifth largest in the world , named Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, and then formed the Classic American Homes Preservation Trust. He gifted several homes to the trust and they in turn have opened them to the public for all of the citizens of the world to enjoy.  One of those homes is in Charleston S.C. , only about two hours from where we record our podcasts. 

So we thought we would introduce you to Dick Jenrette, and to the American Classic Homes Preservation Trust, so that you can hear of the wonderful work they do and can perhaps one day go see the homes for yourself. 

https://classicalamericanhomes.org/ 

(We want to thank the American Classic Homes Preservation Trust who created all the videos, save one CNBC Newscast report, we used in this episode. )

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