Mr. President: The Untold Story

An eighty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson lies dying at Monticello, waking only to ask one question: is it the Fourth? The series finale: a library sold to replace the one the British burned, a plea to end slavery he would not lead, a university built from scratch, a debt that swallowed everything, and what happened to the people he enslaved after he died.

Next: James Madison, Part 1: The Night Washington Burned.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
02:15 Eight Hours in the Snow
04:08 The Same Oar
05:24 A Library for a Burned Capitol
07:28 The Wolf by the Ear
09:24 The Academical Village
11:42 The Coup de Grace
13:42 Fifty Minutes Past Noon
15:44 What the Will Could Not Save
18:17 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Narration produced with digital voice tools.

A vice president kills Alexander Hamilton and goes back to running the Senate, while Jefferson buries his daughter and wins a landslide. Then come Burr's western plot and treason trial, a British warship firing on the Chesapeake, and the embargo that nearly wrecks the country, until Jefferson rides home through a snowstorm, a prisoner set free.

Next: Thomas Jefferson, Part 5: The Fourth of July.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
02:11 Indicted, and Presiding
03:49 Half of All I Had
06:10 The Man Who Wanted an Empire
09:07 Cousins in a Courtroom
11:18 One Gun for the Honor of the Flag
13:05 Ograbme
15:07 Shaking Off the Shackles
17:15 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Narration produced with digital voice tools.

A Richmond newspaper names Sally Hemings in 1802, and Thomas Jefferson never answers it. So we go back: the boy who lost his father at fourteen, the slave-trade passage Congress cut from the Declaration, the wife he lost, and the fourteen-year-old girl who arrived in Paris in 1787.
What her son Madison Hemings said in 1873, what the 1998 DNA study did and did not prove, and why Monticello now calls Jefferson's paternity a settled historical matter.

Next: Thomas Jefferson, Part 4: Prisoner of Power.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
02:20 The Boy at Shadwell
04:13 Martha
05:54 The Words
08:56 Time Wastes Too Fast
10:48 Paris
12:14 The Promise
14:38 What the Evidence Shows
18:30 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Narration produced with digital voice tools.

A British diplomat in gold braid meets a president in worn-out slippers, and a dinner seating chart nearly becomes an international incident.
A twelve-hundred-pound cheese, a war with the pirates of Tripoli, and the night Napoleon offers all of Louisiana, as Thomas Jefferson doubles the country with an act he privately believed went beyond the Constitution.

Next: Thomas Jefferson, Part 3: The Words and the Secret.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
02:24 The Open House
04:54 A Twelve-Hundred-Pound Cheese
06:59 The Pirates of Tripoli
09:07 One Single Spot
11:24 The Whole of It
13:02 An Act Beyond the Constitution
14:53 Two Mice in a Church
16:32 Pell-Mell
18:46 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Narration produced with digital voice tools.

Thirty-five ballots. Thirty-five deadlocks. A feverish congressman carried through a snowstorm to vote from his bed, in the election of 1800 that nobody won.
A tie built into the Constitution, a running mate who wouldn't step aside, Alexander Hamilton choosing the man he hated, and the new president who walked to his own inauguration, then went home to the coldest seat at the table.

Next: Thomas Jefferson, Part 2: Pell-Mell.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
02:10 A Tie Nobody Planned
04:18 Reading His Own Name
06:12 A Bed in the Snow
09:10 Ballot Thirty-Six
10:41 Two Weeks to Get Ready
11:54 The Walk Up the Hill
15:27 The Coldest Seat at the Table
17:46 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Image credits: all images via Wikimedia Commons (public domain or CC0). Artists and sources include: Rembrandt Peale; Gilbert Stuart; John Vanderlyn; Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin; Samuel F. B. Morse; Thomas Sully; John Trumbull; Charles Bird King; Henry Inman; Francis Guy; William Birch; Benjamin Henry Latrobe; Jane Braddick Peticolas; Library of Congress; National Archives; New York Public Library; and unknown artists.

Narration produced with digital voice tools.

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The Fourth of July, 1826. Fifty years to the day after the Declaration, two old presidents are dying five hundred miles apart.
A bitter exile, a doctor's dream, the greatest pen pals in American history, the loss of Abigail, a son in the White House, and the last words of John Adams.

Next: Thomas Jefferson, Part 1.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:22 Exile at Peacefield
04:07 Dr. Rush's Dream
06:29 The Greatest Pen Pals in History
08:30 Losing Abigail
10:04 Father of a President
14:26 Thomas Jefferson Survives
17:18 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Image credits: all images via Wikimedia Commons (public domain or CC0). Artists and sources include: John Singleton Copley; Gilbert Stuart; Benjamin Blyth; John Trumbull; Mather Brown; Samuel F. B. Morse; Charles Willson Peale; Thomas Sully; Joseph Siffred Duplessis; Paul Revere; Alonzo Chappel; Library of Congress; and unknown artists.

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A coded packet from Paris, a demand for a bribe, and a president who has to decide whether to show the whole country.
The XYZ Affair, a war at sea nobody declared, a thirteen-year-old midshipman lost in battle, Americans jailed for a joke, the peace that cost Adams everything, and the first night in an unfinished White House.

Next: John Adams, Part 5: Thomas Jefferson Survives.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:41 Following Washington
04:10 The XYZ Affair
06:53 A War Nobody Declared
09:40 The Sedition Act: Jailed for a Joke
11:52 The Decision That Cost Him Everything
16:01 A Blessing on the White House
18:48 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Image credits: all images via Wikimedia Commons (public domain or CC0). Artists and sources include: John Singleton Copley; Gilbert Stuart; Benjamin Blyth; John Trumbull; Mather Brown; Samuel F. B. Morse; Charles Willson Peale; Thomas Sully; Joseph Siffred Duplessis; Paul Revere; Alonzo Chappel; Library of Congress; and unknown artists.

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Lightning strikes the mast, a British ship closes in, and a member of Congress grabs a musket.
A mule ride across Spain, a fever that nearly kills him in Holland, America's first embassy, face to face with King George, a souvenir from Shakespeare's chair, and a job he called the most insignificant office ever invented.

Next: John Adams, Part 4: Not One Cent.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:26 The Chase and the Storm
02:59 The Martha
04:21 Paris, and the Problem Named Franklin
06:13 A Leaking Ship and a Mule Ride Across Spain
07:57 The Dutch Gamble
10:39 Two Best Friends: Adams and Jefferson
15:19 His Rotundity
19:49 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

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A mother and her seven-year-old son watch Charlestown burn from a hilltop. Her husband is three hundred miles away, starting a country.
The man who picked Washington, Abigail's 'Remember the Ladies' letter, why Jefferson got the pen, the real birthday of America, one bed shared with Ben Franklin, and a coffee riot in Boston.

Next: John Adams, Part 3: The Most Insignificant Office.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:31 Penn's Hill
03:49 Remember the Ladies
06:11 I Cannot But Laugh
08:53 July 2nd, Not the 4th
12:09 A Coffee Riot and a Lost Daughter
14:27 The Kingmaker
16:41 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

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Five dead in the snow on King Street, and the most hated men in Boston need a lawyer. A thirty-four-year-old John Adams says yes.
A farm boy who hated Latin, the girl he called Miss Adorable, a dying man's last words in court, and the trial that could have ended his career.

Next: John Adams, Part 2: Remember the Ladies.

Chapters:
00:00 Cold open
01:41 The Farm Boy Who Hated Latin
04:21 Miss Adorable: John and Abigail
07:57 The Boston Massacre Trial
12:36 Facts Are Stubborn Things
15:34 The Road to Philadelphia
17:54 Wrap-up

Mr. President: The Untold Story. The presidents you think you know, told like a thriller. A new part every day, one president at a time.

Intro music: John Philip Sousa, The Stars and Stripes Forever, performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band (public domain).

Image credits: all images via Wikimedia Commons (public domain or CC0). Artists and sources include: John Singleton Copley; Gilbert Stuart; Benjamin Blyth; John Trumbull; Mather Brown; Samuel F. B. Morse; Charles Willson Peale; Thomas Sully; Joseph Siffred Duplessis; Paul Revere; Alonzo Chappel; Library of Congress; and unknown artists.

More from the Mr. President team: books, free tools, and writing services.
Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0vR5CaOjBj3Bykefvqh0sQ | https://www.youtube.com/@MrPresidentUntoldStory
Books: https://payhip.com/DavidKaneBooks
Free calculators: https://calcsunny.com
Free audio tools: https://audioknife.calcsunny.com
Writing (memoir, business, self-help): https://www.fiverr.com/brightdesk_co