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It as you were speaking. you were in the oval office, right? >> right, right. he's talking about jackson's portrait was to his left, jefferson was to his right and we got into a discussion about jackson and, you know, i mean, i don't think it's a surprise that the way that the president talks is very flippant. he talks in short, sort of -- like as if you were at the bar. like hey. >> we call ellipses. he does that. >> right. exactly. >> sometimes it's hard to sort of pull that all together and string coherent thought in there. >> were you surprised by the comments at all as a civil war buff, w...