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...dollar's rise, however, also has a darker side. It has made the products of U.S. firms more expensive abroad at the same time that they have to compete with lower prices for foreign goods at home. Complains Edward Jefferson, chairman of Du Pont: "Since 1980 the rise in the value of the dollar has put a 50% surcharge on all U.S. goods sold abroad, and a 50% subsidy on all imports...
...unfortunate it is that so many people have been so turned off by a single incident, as I have. How much more unfortunate it is that the students of Harvard University don't give a damn. Kelly A. Jefferson...
...Sabbath, Reagan's schedule on the first day of his second term was kept deliberately low key: a 45-minute prayer service at the National Cathedral, to be followed by the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. In the late afternoon, the President was due at the Jefferson Memorial to attend the National Pageant of Young Americans, one of several Inaugural events designed to increase the participation of incipient Republicans...
Successful American Presidents have carried the nation forward because they have rarely if ever had to worry about resources. Perhaps Reagan, intimidated by deficit concerns, feels more limited than his predecessors in the Oval Office. Thomas Jefferson instantly accepted a deal to buy the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, money the new nation did not have. Jefferson was convinced that Americans would pay, and they did. Abraham Lincoln at first hoped the Civil War might take a few million dollars and a few weeks to win. But after four years he had the world's biggest army...
...recent years, many biographers learned their art in the School of Debunking. But accounts of past lives have yielded to a more generous and appreciative discipline, which has led to opposite excesses. For declaring Prince Albert "comparable to Thomas Jefferson" and for insisting that Queen Victoria's Prince Consort "merits a volume as architect, designer, farmer, and naturalist," Robert Rhodes James earns highest marks in the Warts Can Be Beautiful School of Biography...