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...leadership we are producing in this literate democratic society of some 230 million people with the leadership of the Thirteen Colonies in the late 18th century. For all its familiarity, the point is still a painful one. From 3 million people living on the edge of a wilderness: Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, the Adamses. (Would these men have survived the scrutiny of a Mike Wallace or Ben Bradlee? Probably so. The press was much more savage in those days.) But perhaps, out of all the mysterious historical chemistries that can produce a golden age-the Athens of Pericles, Renaissance...
...political reconciliation that defies the national mood and grows stronger and deeper each year. A direct descendant of the elm tree that John Quincy Adams planted on the White House grounds in 1826 is now three years old and 14 ft. high, growing in the soil Thomas Jefferson had graded into a small hill back in 1807 to increase the beauty and privacy of the President's residence...
...Jefferson and John Adams, John Quincy Adams' father, were fast friends when they helped found the Republic. Politics subsequently divided and embittered them, and only in their last decade did the two men engineer a reconciliation. Now there is a living symbol...
...Each spring he will take a few seeds from the old tree and start them out on a Maryland farm. After three years of growth, they will be transplanted to their permanent homes. None of the cousins will be so special as the one planted in March on the Jefferson mound. It has the classic vase shape of Ulmus americana. Its trunk is already 4-in. in diameter, and its upper branches in a couple of years will brush the lower limbs of the patriarch. It will be ready to stand vigil for another 150 years in the name...
Bloss is known to have sprayed oil contaninated with dioxin in several Jefferson County horse arenas in the early 1970s Horses, birds and small animals later died in those areas. Bloss did not know the oil, obtained from a chemical company, contained the porson