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The ceremonies were split between Independence Hall and Congress Hall, where the first federal lawmakers met. If any theme emerged from the speechifying, it was that the capacity to produce such conciliatory agreements as the Great Compromise may be the genius of the American system. House Speaker Jim Wright praised...
Leaving the TV studio, Madison braced himself for the gauntlet of demonstrators and special pleaders. He strode quickly past the suffragists with their banner: THE RITES OF MAN ARE WRONGS FOR WOMEN. He shook off two business lobbyists, easily identifiable by their soft Venetian boots, who wanted the Constitution specifically...
A year ago, the star of James A. (for Addison) Baker III was at its zenith. Standing at Ronald Reagan's side in Tokyo, the 67th U.S. Treasury Secretary helped forge an agreement at the annual summit meeting for improved international economic cooperation. While Baker was accomplishing that feat, his...
In the 1830s the Afrikaners decided to escape English rule by setting forth on their Great Trek, which over the years has acquired the epic aura of a Long March or a Valley Forge. Packing their women and children into ox-drawn wagons, some 6,000 Afrikaners departed from the...
THE PAINTINGS ON VIEW IN the exhibitionare unfamiliar even to Americans at home in theworld of canvas and pigment. While the writers andmusicians of the period--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,Chekhov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky--have achievedworldwide fame, the visual artists remain largelyunknown outside of the Soviet Union. In the latenineteenth century Russian culture...