and certainly texasiberty. it was a vision that will provide the framework for manifest destiny. it will provide the framework for the texas revolution and it's really going to lay the a continental empire. it stretches from the atlantic to the pacific. now, because of that, jefferson believed thathat was a cornerstone in what he saw as american expansion. for someone who studies thomas jefferson, one thing kiyou, thi before twitter and facebook. and he wrote more than 20,000 letters. and the thing that kills me is how politicians from the right cherry-pick his quotes and try tojefferson supported that. well, yeah, he did support this and that. and you figure he lived to be 80-plus years old. so over the course of a long life, he did have a lot of different attitudes. and his ideas and belief were always evolving and changing. well, in 1786, jefferson would write to a friend, he said, our continent must be viewed as the nest from which all america, north and south, is to be people. well, in 1791, the summer of 1791, the spanish governor of florida, quesada -- you said there was a