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...Benedict K. Zobrist, Director...
...complete trust in the Bible's reliability and developed their own creeds to reinforce its teachings, their insistence that each individual read the Bible for himself set the stage for the rise of radical new ideas that they would have abhorred. In the 17th century the Dutch Philosopher Baruch ("Benedict") Spinoza, an excommunicated Jew, used a method that would be widely emulated by rationalist critics during the Enlightenment: he treated the Bible as a human rather than divine work and thus subject to investigation of its books according to date, authorship, composition and setting...
...Beatrice he wrote that Ike "spoke of lunch as 'tiffin' and of gasoline as 'petrol.' I truly fear that London has conquered Abilene." Because Eisenhower said he regarded himself as an Ally rather than specifically an American, Patton said he was "damned near to being Benedict Arnold...
...only Republican to vote aye on all three accepted articles of impeachment, drew more heat from his constituents than anybody else on the Judiciary Committee. His mail, which at one point ran almost ten times the normal flow, was often angry and bitter. Constituents called him "Brutus," "Judas" and "Benedict Arnold"; representatives of 100 American Legion posts said they were afraid he would come out next in favor of amnesty for draft evaders and deserters (Hogan is an outspoken opponent of amnesty); there were even three telephoned threats on his life...
Rodino also studied the seminal writings of Edmund Burke, the 18th century conservative sage, who argued that impeachment should rest "not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence, but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality." Three times the chairman read Historian Michael Les Benedict's 1973 book entitled The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. Rodino was frank enough to admit his awe at his onrushing responsibilities. "I lie awake at nights," he once admitted. "I just hope I'll be able to live up to them...