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...people. The total: 3,929,214. President George Washington, however suspected an undercount. In a letter to Gouverneur Morris, then U.S. Commissioner to Great Britain, Washington worried about the "indolence of the mass, and want of activity" by many census takers. Proof of this thesis: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was in charge of the tally, had to sign his own name to the list of citizens posted in Philadelphia...
Obsessive weather monitoring, in any case, is an old American custom. Thomas Jefferson was mysteriously compulsive about the weather. He kept interminable logs of changes in the temperature. He knew what millions in the weathercasters' audiences may sense: if you know what the weather (a primal force in the world) is up to, you are somehow, obscurely but actually, in control...
...prayer, written by Thomas Jefferson, concluded with, "In Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, Amen...
Therefore, Fowler concludes, Hancock was neither so wealthy, so radical, nor so distinguished as many around him. "He lacked the eloquence of Jefferson, the intellect of John Adams, and the character of Washington," Fowler admits...
...John Jefferson Davis Hamilton, Mass...