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Trump's Jeffersonian Precedent

How the First Barbary War paved the way for modern executive action in Venezuela.

It's a pleasure to welcome Professor John Yoo, a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute and a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.

He writes most recently about the shores of Tripoli. Remember the phrase “the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli”?

Well, roughly speaking, the “halls of Montezuma” are now Caracas, Venezuela, and the shores of Tripoli.

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