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The Joseph Smith Papers

Season 1 · Episode 39

"I Can Do Nothing for You"

0.0August 17, 2009

Recount the meeting of the Prophet and the president in 1839, and learn Smith's candid assessment of the people and power of the nation's capital.

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Episode 1Overview
Episode 2Joseph's Roots
Episode 3Joseph's America
Episode 4Palmyra
Episode 5First Vision Beginnings
Episode 6Four Accounts
Episode 7The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
Episode 8Harmony
Episode 9Priesthood
Episode 10The Papers People--Part 1
Episode 11The Papers People--Part 2
Episode 12The Translation of the Book of Mormon
Episode 13Printing the Book of Mormon
Episode 14A Mother's Account
Episode 15History of a History
Episode 16Joseph's Journals
Episode 17Oliver's Story
Episode 18They Met the Prophet
Episode 19Saving Joseph's Leg
Episode 20Joseph's New Translation--Part 1
Episode 21Joseph's New Translation--Part 2
Episode 22The Letters of Joseph and Emma
Episode 23Joseph Smith the Radical
Episode 24April 6, 1830
Episode 25Kirtland Beginnings
Episode 26Visions and Blessings, Tar and Feathers
Episode 27The Kirtland Temple: An Endowment of Power
Episode 28Zion
Episode 29Zion's Camp
Episode 30Crisis in Kirtland
Episode 31Joseph Smith and the Law--Part 1
Episode 32Joseph Smith and the Law--Part 2
Episode 33The Mormon War
Episode 34Liberty Jail
Episode 35Suffering and Salvationa
Episode 36The Mission of the Twelve to England
Episode 37Land, Joseph and "Justice" in Missouri
Episode 38Nauvoo Beginnings
Episode 39"I Can Do Nothing for You"
Episode 40Joseph Smith's Sermons
Episode 41Jewel on the Mississippi
Episode 42A Pearl of Great Price
Episode 43Doctrines of Salvation
Episode 44Joseph and the Relief Society
Episode 45Living by the Law
Episode 46Going International
Episode 47Gathering Clouds
Episode 48Joseph Smith for President
Episode 49Martyrdom
Episode 50Lamentation and Leadership
Episode 51Who Will Lead? Who Will Follow?
Episode 100A Television Foreword