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...good time to get away from Washington and ask one of the old hands like Thomas Jefferson how the country looks from where he reposes. Jefferson is in style more than ever-the man who suspected bigness, distrusted cities, believed passionately in individuality. Jefferson is not readily available for consultation, of course. But if one cannot talk to him, then Dumas Malone, 86, the pre-eminent biographer, can stand...
Indeed, anarchism echoes a common theme of American thinkers, from Thomas Jefferson, who said that the best government is the one which governs least, to Henry David Thoreau, who expanded Jefferson's statement to express an ideal remarkably similar to that of the anarchists: "That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have...
...drifting back to personal diplomacy and intimate settings where the powerbrokers can look each other in the eye. Last week Israelis and Egyptians, despite their outside spats, were expected to keep working in Blair House amid the Hepplewhite furniture, the Stuart oils and the busts of Franklin, Jefferson and Washington. The veritable crush of American heritage still seems to have some of the old magic...
...indictments, which were handed up more than a month ago, became public only last week, after a reporter came across them in the files of the Charlotte County courthouse. The embezzlement indictment was based on two searches conducted by officials in Jefferson County, Ala. Last May, sheriffs raided the Hoover apartment in which Michaelides had lived, locating thousands of dollars' worth of Bruce family silver. Then in September they went to a Birmingham warehouse and seized valuable paintings, rare books, furniture and antiques that were being crated for shipment to Michaelides in Athens...
...embezzled nothing from the Bruces. Said he: "Everything that was found on my hands was either given to me by my wife or her brothers, or it was bought by me from her brothers after her death." (Alexandra's brother David denies this claim in an affidavit, filed in Jefferson County...