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...Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis to urge peace in the Civil War. That spirit still stalks those halls...
After 110 years Jefferson Davis is once again a U.S. citizen, thanks to a bill signed into law by a fellow Southerner, Jimmy Carter. Shorn of citizenship by a punitive Reconstruction Era Congress, Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died in 1889. In 1975, General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored, leaving Davis the sole Confederate leader still ostracized. Carter agreed that enough was enough. Said he: "Our nation needs to clear away the guilts, enmities and recriminations of the past...
...Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Jr. '54, inducted to the Hall of Fame last night, was defensive guard and center linebacker for Harvard during a difficult period. "Back then we didn't have real winning seasons; we broke even" he said. Coolidge was also a key hockey player for the Crimson. He said he was glad to be honored as a Hall of Fame newcomer...
...Both showed a propensity to indulge in short term, demonstration-oriented politics. They sought to radicalize the nation by publishing Bantam pamphlets on the rights of Americans, by dredging up the most radical notions of our Founding Fathers (for small farms, against a standing army). But the days of Jefferson and Jackson were long over and the once infant country now grappled with the more complex issues of corporate dominance and the contradictions of capitalism. Radical faddism for all its short term benefits served more to fuel the conservative backlash than accomplish any real change...
Agriculture is the "first priority in the economy" of Vietnam, Nguyen Van Hieu, director of the Institute of Physics in Hanoi, told a group of 40 at Jefferson Hall yesterday...