I think we certainly had some great presidents and there's no question, there's no George Washington, there's no United States of America. And I think you have to say it, but I still think The greatest crisis in American history was the Civil War. And it's when we had to finally come to grips with the contradiction who we were and who we aspired to be, who we said we were going to be in the Declaration of Independence and the things we said in our own Constitution. (48:59–49:04)
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