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...dozen years of nonrecognition had failed to alter either the internal or the foreign policies of the Soviet Union. Hostility having failed, the U.S. was ready to try a dose of friendship. The new American embassy was to be modeled on Monticello. "I like the idea of planting Thomas Jefferson in Moscow," said F.D.R. The first U.S. Ambassador, William Bullitt, told the President, "Our representatives in the Soviet Union today can have a really immense influence...
Last week the Boston Athenaeum, just down Beacon Hill from the gold-domed statehouse, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Trustees today include descendants of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Yet for all its Oriental carpets, marble busts and Victorian antiques, the Athenaeum is no stuffy club of Yankee bluebloods. The trustees include four women, as well as an Irish American Roman Catholic monsignor, and the library's magnificent collection of 750,000 volumes is available to the scholars of the world. One of the finest independent libraries in the country, the Boston Athenaeum truly lives up to its entrance plaque...
Though angry enough to strike, most workers were thinking of their families and the holiday season coming up. Said a veteran of the assembly line at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue plant in Detroit: "I voted to work. It's getting cold. Christmas is coming. And I wanted to have something for Santa Claus." Strike benefits from the union would have been $65 a week, or nearly $200 less than the average take-home pay for a Chrysler assembly-line worker...
...this would be excusable, but some of it might be more understandable, if the Review did not purport to represent intellectual conservatism at an academic institution of high calibre, if it did not claim on its advisory board such distinguished conservatives as George Gilder, Walter Williams, and Mildred Jefferson...
Veterans Affairs Administrator Max Cleland came to tell me goodbye. He brought me a plaque with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: "I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my Administration not a drop of the blood of a single citizen was shed by the sword of war." This is something I shall always cherish...