used against him by the moral side of america that thought that clay was a womanizer, blasphemer, dualist, and a drinker. and so those things would be used against him over and over again. reall but it was much exaggerated. it became part of the stereo type of henry clay. >> clay died in 1852. so the 50 year career we're talking about spans the first half of the 19th century america, a great year -- many years full of formation of the nation and also sectionalism and the fights over slavery. we have so much to talk about and dur >> henry clay's life is at best a mixed message. his compromise were on slavery. one could argue that he rose above sectional strife, to keep the union together, to preserve the union. but one could also argue that he was morally wrong and that his decisions on slavery, to extend slavery, were decisions that may have actually ultimately invited the war that came. that his compromises meant that during the 50 years of his legislative career, he not only accepted slavery, but he accepted the slave trade. in the name of compromise, henry clay was by most accounts not

used against him by the moral side of america that thought that clay was a womanizer, blasphemer, dualist, and a drinker. and so those things would be used against him over and over again. really at different times in his life, there was something to some of those. but it was much exaggerated. it became part of the stereo type of henry clay. >> clay died in 1852. so the 50 year career we're talking about spans the first half of the 19th century america, a great year -- many years full of formation of the nation and also sectionalism and the fights over slavery. we have so much to talk about and during this program, we will be opening up our phone lines for your participation. i'll give you the phone numbers now. it will be a little bit of time before we get to call, but if you're interested on do so, you can get in line. 20 202-737-0002 in the mounts in-sooin mountain time zones. we want to listen to the views of kentucky's junior senator, rand paul. >> henry clay's life is at best a mixed message. his compromise were on slavery. one could argue that he rose about sexual strive to preserv

>> because the apparent culture and system is one of directive extractive, predatory, dualistic lyingm bags and we have all these other people that are completely the opposite of that, this collective collaboration and right now, the power model at the top of our media, banks, politicians, models this sort of putrid, dominance seeking culture and ultimately, that's what we need to repair and what we're seeing repaired away from new york and washington in all the places that we've been able to visit and my goal is to obviously learn more about all that. >> so part of what you're saying is that the consumption of your media, your message, is not for you, success. it's actually changing something through the message. >> i feel like the reason to go to work is to try to help. and helping, i interpreted helping myself as trying to explain complicated things. to large groups of people so they better understood how they were being lied to by the government and media. with the the banking system. and i don't want to diminish the value of informed awareness, but i think that the awareness has