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...reckoning of Dumas Malone, the world's preeminent Jeffersonian biographer, "No other American document has been read so often or listened to by so many weary and perspiring audiences" as the Declaration of Independence. Certainly new records were set this Fourth as the words of Thomas Jefferson about "self-evident" truths and "unalienable rights" were beamed from the base of the Statue of Liberty around the globe. "Those well-worn phrases have never lost their potency and charm," insists Malone, though at the time they were first introduced, Jefferson was still miffed that his original text had been edited...
...skills as a communicator, Reagan notes, are integral to his political success. "I believe in taking the big issues to the people," he says, paraphrasing Jefferson's belief that the "American people, if they know all the facts, will never make a mistake." It was a talent he learned in an earlier career. "The very soul of show business is communicating. There's an old rule in Hollywood that when your face is up there on the screen in a close-up, if you don't believe the line you're speaking, the audience will know it, and they...
...France and the United States. One day last week he was found fretting with Nancy Reagan's advance team over details of a speech and nursing a severe sting administered by Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who canceled the naturalization ceremony that was to be held at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington and televised nationally. Gesell said the planners were turning the "usual dignified naturalization court" into a "pageant" of dubious taste...
During the late 19th century, Henry Adams despaired of the quality of American leadership. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," he wrote, "was alone evidence to disprove Darwin." What would Adams have had to say about evolution in the office from Thomas Jefferson, say, to Ronald Reagan...
Meanwhile, in the middle of America, thousands of the people Thomas Jefferson envisioned as the mainstay of our country are losing their farms, their homes, and their hope. Those who survive the agricultural rat race are forced to do things like slaughtering dairy cows to drive up the price of milk in order to pay the bank. This also bothered...