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...terms were deemed acceptable, the delegates unanimoufly felt that the final proviso would subject the colonies to an outrageously exorbitant and punitively expensive program of oral hygiene, and was therefore onerous and a deal breaker. Authorization was then given for Congress to receive the document being prepared by Messrs. Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, and word was sent to Genl. Washington to mufter the troops...
...THOMAS JEFFERSON Court blurs his cherished line between church and state...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Until recently, for all of Al Gore's talk about the Information Superhighway, it's the Republicans who have been the savviest wielders of Web power, starting with such notable early efforts as Thomas, the comprehensive Congressional website named for Thomas Jefferson. Now the Democrats are catching up. When the Republicans trotted out their tax calculator to show how their tax cut proposal provides "Relief for Every Taxpayer In Every Stage of Life," the Democrats quickly swung into action with a calculator of their own. The not-so-surprising conclusion: if you're rich, have lots of kids...
...presidential contest. Back then the Republicans were revolting and the President was arguing with the press about whether he had some relevance to the process of government. The week after the 1994 elections Time charitably said that, "if not gone, certainly radically diminished was the prospect of William Jefferson Clinton's gaining a second term." Yet, Tuesday night it was the same President who was beaming in front of the Old State House in Arkansas, having been reelected in an electoral college landslide...
DRESSED TO KILL Government Exhibit 429: the T shirt Timothy McVeigh wore on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. The back reveals a tree with droplets of blood for leaves, and underneath is a 1787 inscription by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The front of the shirt shows a picture of Abraham Lincoln's face as if displayed on a wanted poster, and it is accompanied by the Latin phrase shouted by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater after he assassinated the Civil...