Word: jefferson
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...Thomas Jefferson expands executive authority with the Louisiana Purchase after ominous warnings of Presidential abuses...
...Thomas Jefferson, for example, emphatically opposed wide power for the president, warning of demagoguery. That changed, however, when Jefferson himself was elected to the office...
When the French put a huge piece of real estate called Louisiana on the market in 1803, Jefferson, without seeking Congressional approval, exceeded and thus expanded his executive authority to make the purchase...
...Jefferson the idealist won the hearts of journalists forever by declaring that he "should not hesitate for the moment" to defend right of newspapers over the right of government...
...Jefferson the politician had a more sour view: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper," he wrote to a friend in 1807. "Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put in that polluted vehicle." (With his attitudes towards the press, Jefferson is surpassed only by Nixon, who spoke eloquently for first amendments freedoms while using the FBI to spy on journalists he thought were dangerous...