Benjamin Franklin's closing speech at the Constitutional Convention
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Benjamin Franklin's closing speech at the Constitutional Convention has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Pod Save America. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Ben RhodesFormer Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say"
Rhodes noted that Franklin's closing convention speech said nothing about the Constitution's contents and focused entirely on compromise.
“The entire speech is about the virtue of compromise itself”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 24:00
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What Does it Mean to Be an American?Pod Save America · May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
Jon Favreau talks with Ben Rhodes about his book "All We Say," tracing the 250-year argument over American identity through fifteen consequential speeches.
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