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...John Adams, the first occupant, had a brief, cold and unhappy time in the new White House, and his dyspeptic ghost seemed to linger there for years. Thomas Jefferson groused about "a splendid misery." Mary Todd Lincoln understandably called the place "that whited sepulchre." Calvin Coolidge once said, "Nobody lives there. They just come and go." And Harry Truman called it "the great white jail" but loved the place for its grace and meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Two Centuries and Counting | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead October 19, 1992 Vol. 140 No. 16 | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...Thomas Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millennium Top Ten | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...SAID IT? From the top: Martin Luther William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Rene Descartes Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Sir Henry Morton Stanley Franklin D. Roosevelt Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millennium Top Ten | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...perception that matters. Which candidate didn't mention any members of his family? Which candidate did not say he personally had held a crack baby--but only that his wife had? Which candidate announced that "democracies are our friends"? Well, Herbert Ross Perot, George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton respectively...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: And the Winner Is... | 10/13/1992 | See Source »

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