Craig Shirley

@NYTimes bestselling author, presidential historian, and Ronald Reagan biographer. Chairman and CEO of @SMPubAffairs and @CFTR

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Chatting with @TracySabolDC on @NEWSMAX

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@AntiLeftMemes Get on a Stair Master!

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@TRUMP_ARMY_ She never studied the law the day they taught law.

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@LibertyNut1 What is there to respect?

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@NBCNews Whatever gas is used, make sure it is painful.

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#OnThisDay in 1776, the Committee of Five was appointed by the Second Continental Congress to begin drafting the Declaration. In a letter to Timothy Pickering in August 1822, John Adams wrote about forming the Committee: https://t.co/ocQvXZP8O9

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@RT_com Pigs.

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@nypost He better learn to answer to "Mrs."

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1776, five men were handed an impossible assignment.

Write the document that would declare war on the most powerful empire on Earth.

They had 17 days.

The Committee of Five: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman.

They gave the job to Jefferson. He was 33 years old.

Adams later wrote that he pushed for Jefferson because Jefferson was a better writer and because Adams knew he himself had too many enemies in Congress.

Jefferson wrote the draft in about two weeks, alone, in a rented room in Philadelphia.

Congress then proceeded to argue about it for two days straight and cut roughly 25% of his original text. Jefferson sat in silence and watched them do it.

The part they cut the hardest? His condemnation of slavery.

The document we celebrate every July 4th is the edited version. Jefferson went to his grave preferring the original.

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@DavidJHarrisJr Nauseating.

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@WHLeavitt @BGOnTheScene Excellent!

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The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.

Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

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@MichelleMaxwell Why am I not surprised?

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@Babywwir Too much inbreeding.

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It makes perfect sense Platner has a Nazi tattoo. He is a leftist, just as Hitler was, just as all American leftists are devotees of National Socialism, antisemitism included.

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Today's Americans appreciate a more festive celebration, presidential historian Craig Shirley said. “We like it as a big event because it’s grown on us." https://t.co/4wUH0h3A2d

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The morons on Capitol Hill can't do anything right but now they are taking on pro football? Knowing them, pro football will be eviscerated shortly.

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@DavidJHarrisJr Shut up!

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@Xmusknewsx Love it!

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@Samdani4232 Terrorist.