Word: hamilton
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...HAMILTON FISH New York City...
...eagle, the lion, the lamb and the bear were far from harmonizing about peace on earth. And it was a gloomy day when President John Kennedy arrived in Bermuda last week for his fourth series of somber talks this year with Britain's Harold Macmillan. Sitting in Hamilton's pale pink Government House. Kennedy and Macmillan conversed for as long as five hours at a stretch-with only a few minutes out for tea-but. inevitably, they were able to produce little in the way of hard solutions to the world's woes...
Three mighty collections in progress for historians and readers of history: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Volume III), edited by Leonard W. Labaree; The Adams Papers (Volumes I to IV), edited by L. H. Butterfield; and The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (Volumes I and II), edited by Harold C. Syrett and Jacob E. Cooke...
...Colonel. Hamilton was the bastard son of a French-English mother and a Scotch father who lived together apparently with full approval of the community on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. At the age of 14, Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...
When the war Hamilton wished for came along in 1776, he was attending New York's King's College (later Columbia University), and he had already won a name for himself as an anti-British pamphleteer. He quit college to command an artillery company, fought hard and well in the campaigns around New York City, and caught the eye of George Washington himself. At the age of 22, Alexander Hamilton became aide-de-camp to Washington with the rank of lieutenant colonel...