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Hi,
a question again:What does it mean?
to hold forth on a spread of topics from the Treasury to Trotsky
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Hi,
a question again:What does it mean?
to hold forth on a spread of topics from the Treasury to Trotsky
To "hold forth" means to talk at length about a subject.

In this case it was a spread (wide variety) of topics.
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