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… (moderator) … By Christopher Tyree You have to wonder what Thomas Jefferson would have thought about the fact that on May 23, …
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… victor's inauguration, just as his father had boycotted Thomas Jefferson's in 1801. He wrote in his diary that "The sun of …
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… enacted a law, written and proposed by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, called the Virginia Statute for Religious …
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… was essentially laissez-faire. Anointing themselves as Thomas Jefferson's true heirs, Democrats stood for simple, frugal, …
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… of copies -Lincoln Day speeches -Impoundment -Thomas Jefferson -Amount -Executive privilege -John W. Dean, …
Oral History Interviews
… Bush as she had been for the late Congressman Albert Thomas, a Democrat, whom Bush inherited from Mrs. [Lera … of the revision. Conventional wisdom now about Thomas Jefferson is rather different from what it was. Milkis …
Oral History Interviews
… There’s a lot of historical precedent in it for that, too. Jefferson came in, and he instituted a new social regime into … coincidence. I just read an article a while ago that [Thomas P.] Tip O’Neill devised a task force approach to … Hamilton was writing articles under an assumed name about [Thomas] Jefferson, you didn’t have a national security staff …
Presidential Biographies
… politics in the early 1800s and joined the party of Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic-Republicans. Van Buren rose …
Presidential Biographies
… descent. Martin's father, Abraham Van Buren—a supporter of Thomas Jefferson in a region populated by supporters of Jefferson's …
Oral History Interviews
… left. I’d hear from my former colleagues, mainly from [Thomas] Tip O’Neill. We were good friends. He was beguiled by … consideration? Mikva It was more the former. William Jefferson Clinton is one of the most complete political …
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… or in Massachusetts, but all over the United States. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who developed the Northwest …
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… I highlighted, I put notes in it. These are some of Thomas Jefferson’s statements that he had made about our …
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… the Charlottesville Free Clinic. He was a trustee for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which runs Monticello, and James …
Former Miller Center benefactor and UVA alum dies at 92.
Oral History Interviews
… and a member of Ways and Means retiring. Tip [Thomas P.] O’Neill, the Speaker, wanted to put a member on … folks who were elected, I’m thinking of Congressman Bill Jefferson, who I believe got elected in ’92 and was helpful …
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… more power than many of the crowned monarchies in Europe. Thomas Jefferson said the office was a “bad edition of a Polish …
Why did the powers of the executive accrete over the course of the Constitutional Convention? Credit (or blame) George Washington and the determined delegates who relentlessly pressed for a robust executive.
Presidential Speeches
… were preparing to do, appears in the assertion of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, of Connecticut, as early as 1638, when he said … This preaching reached the neighborhood of Thomas Jefferson, who acknowledged that his "best ideas of …
Presidential Speeches
… was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: "We know the race is not to the swift nor …
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… power between opposing parties, when John Adams yielded to Thomas Jefferson, and Jefferson said, “We are all Republicans. We …
American inaugurations evoke optimism and reconciliation. That’s been the case since the first transfer of peaceful transfer of power between opposing parties.
Presidential Speeches
… communities through a program of national service. It was Thomas Jefferson who first told the American people in essence that …
Presidential Speeches
… would separate opponents only. This was the danger. Mr. Jefferson, then in retirement wrote: ``I had for a long time … as I trace it, from Saint Voltaire, and was baptized by Thomas Jefferson, and since almost universally regarded as …