 educating young people on the unique features of this great American experiment in liberty. This Fourth of July weekend is a great opportunity to begin with ourselves, renewing and refreshing our own appreciation of how very unique our nation is, grounded as it is in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. The Declaration being the apple of gold, as Lincoln put it, borrowing from Proverbs, surrounded by the frame of silver, protecting it, our Constitution. We turn now to my conversation with Matthew Spaulding.