Word: jefferson
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Presidents weren't always so eager to meet the press. Thomas Jefferson had little use for the ink-stained wretches, believing newspapers offered "the caricatures of disaffected minds." During Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, reporters were forced to remain outside the White House gates, until Teddy took pity on them during a rainstorm (the voluble T.R. would later enjoy bantering with scribes while getting a shave). Many Presidents required the press to submit questions in writing and barred them from printing direct quotations; access was so limited the New York Times's Arthur Krock won a Pulitzer for scoring...
...office, was more cautious, saying that President Obama had essentially mirrored President Bush's policy until Holder's announcement. "We're hopeful that this will change their behavior in court," he said, "but in and of itself, the declaration of this new policy doesnt change anything." (Read about Thomas Jefferson's Patriot...
What was once a disorderly storage space for mechanical equipment and slabs of wood has been transformed into a haven for physics concentrators who long lacked a study space of their own.On Monday, the Department of Physics will unveil an “undergraduate study” in the Jefferson Building that offers amenities for a specialized audience: including a stainless steel wall on which individuals can mount heavy magnetic objects and a table that provides access to pressurized air. These will come in addition to standard features like chalkboards, a projection screen, and a coffee machine...
...these things just go on. These are heroes of mine. I really hope these would be heroes to future generations of Americans. [The stories] are ... a way to diminish their contributions to our country's existence." - Complaining of negative media attention toward affairs conducted by Strom Thurmond and Thomas Jefferson, both of whom fathered children out of wedlock with African-American women (the State...
...Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." So wrote Thomas Jefferson to a friend in 1816. Now Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 took on the U.S. Army, and the entire military-executive-industrial establishment, brings his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, to the Venice Film Festival. The land of Macchiavelli and the Medici is the perfect setting for Moore's nonfiction tragicomedy of greed and chicanery on Wall Street, in Washington, D.C., and through the entire economic apparatus. The movie will have its world premiere here tonight, before playing the Toronto Film Festival next week, opening Sept...