Frederick Douglass's Composite Nation speech
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Frederick Douglass's Composite Nation speech 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 argued that Douglass's unpopular defense of Chinese immigrants may have ultimately prevailed despite the Chinese Exclusion Act.
“Maybe because he went high and he went big, maybe he won in the end”
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- Pod Save America · 1 episode
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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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