Thank you, Ben Franklin, part nine!
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Benjamin Franklin's lifelong specialty was possibilities and solutions.
click here to play audioHe was the boy, teenager, and man with the words like “maybe,” “huh,’ “I wonder,” “no,” a laugh, and then there might be a “yes!” His thoughts might concern how to design a fort, or how to negotiate a loan from the French government, or purchasing a printing press. Benjamin Franklin’s lifelong specialty was possibilities and solutions.
He was 76 years old when he completed two years of bargaining on the Treaty of Paris terms…
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