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… and to you that I will be the President of all the people. Thomas Jefferson said the people are the only sure reliance for the …
Oral History Interviews
… President, he would be viable. John Lewis and I, and Bill Jefferson, met and decided to endorse him. You have three … was throwing his name around still. Morrisroe Was it [Thomas] Harkin, maybe? Espy Harkin, yes. It was easy for us. …
Oral History Interviews
… pretty good workmanlike relationship. I think Clinton and [Thomas] Daschle had a stronger personal relationship. Riley … with any of them. Riley He was talking to Mack [Thomas McLarty] at this point? Sosnik Yes. Without getting … [ laughter ] But anyway, Dick invited me to lunch at the Jefferson one day. He'd had similar conversations with Rahm …
Presidential Speeches
… by our indifference. In his first Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling alliances. But in our times, …
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… six months into John Adams’ presidency. Shortly after Thomas Jefferson took office he was thrust into the four-year First …
Some unsolicited advice to the debate moderators at this Wednesday’s GOP debate
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… rankings, leapfrogging perennial favorites Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, and John F. Kennedy. This result would have …
Dwight D. Eisenhower is looking better and better. A recent poll of historians ranks him as the fifth-best president in our nation’s history.
Oral History Interviews
… guy, a Chevrolet dealer in Panama City, named Tommy Thomas. He was just a dear guy. But Tommy sometimes was a … speech which Reagan liked a great deal. It started with Thomas Jefferson and the sun sinking over Monticello. Riley Splendid …
Presidential Speeches
… to construct from these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of …
Presidential Speeches
… their defense—and to advance the cause of peace. President Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "I like the dreams of the future better …
Presidential Speeches
… his incredible legacy and success: George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Betsy Ross. Alexander Hamilton. Benjamin Franklin. …
Oral History Interviews
… talk about the breakfast meeting, the [George] Mitchell, [Thomas] Foley, Bush, Darman, [Nicholas] Brady, Sununu, … school in ’89. Then he went down there and got into Thomas Jefferson School down there. And I actually stayed in …
Presidential Speeches
… the maintenance of education, for the very reasons which Thomas Jefferson gave, that if this nation were to remain free it …
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… Bryan also connects the Democratic Party’s tradition since Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson against moneyed interests in …
The election of 1896 was a partisan battle over the future of American economic policy
Public Events
… University of Virginia. He was, uh, born on the day that Thomas Jefferson died. We live steeped in history here in all of its … the university. FACTOID: Martin born July 4, 1826, the day Jefferson and John Adams died He kept everybody’s time, and, …
Oral History Interviews
… do. This was never expected earlier. One of the ideas that Jefferson had in the closing months of his second term was to … If anything, he detested the party just about like Thomas Jefferson did, and he sort of lamented that people segmented …
Presidential Biographies
… with dirt floors in Hardin County, Kentucky. His father, Thomas Lincoln, could not read and could barely sign his … that many of them, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, had owned slaves. He played down the moral issue …
Presidential Speeches
… Last February 19th at the University of Minnesota, Norman Thomas, six-times candidate for President on the Socialist … that the leadership of his Party was taking the Party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the …
Presidential Speeches
… nationhood. Off to one side, the stately memorial to Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence flames with his …
Presidential Speeches
… revolutions which gave us birth ignited, in the words of Thomas Paine, "a spark never to be extinguished." And across … change by free men-change in the spirit of Washington and Jefferson, of Bolivar and San Martin and Martin--not change …
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… malady of political rancor. Brands’ essay reminds us of Thomas Jefferson’s famous utterance in his first inaugural address, …
Every modern president has dwelled in the shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s extraordinary beginning amid the worst economic crisis in the nation’s history.