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...celebrated Americans were at home abroad last week, just as they had been two centuries before. An exhibition commemorating Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson opened in Paris, where both men had served their young nation so well and had grown to admire their hosts. "A most amiable nation to live with" was the way Franklin described the French; and Jefferson wrote that they "love us more, I think, than they do any nation on earth...
...Daniel Boorstin, Harvard Government Professor James Q. Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Fellow Martin Diamond and Chicago Lawyer John Robson. The group moved to a first floor dining room for a meal of roast beef, mixed vegetables and fruit salad. The scene was more reminiscent of the White House of Thomas Jefferson, who had company at his dinner table nearly every night for leisurely conversation, than that of Richard Nixon, who guarded his privacy and preferred to hear from outsiders by memo...
...Bicentennial, we will cover the events of the week section by section, as if today's TIME had existed then. The Bicentennial issue will be the first TIME has ever wholly devoted to a historical subject. Our cover face remains to be decided. Among the leading contenders: Washington, Jefferson and Franklin...
There was one cheerful note for Detroit's depressed inner city: in announcing the shutdowns, Chrysler said that while the giant Jefferson Avenue plant would be closed until January, it would not close permanently as had been widely feared. Chrysler said that it would keep the plant running at least through the 1975 model year, meaning mid-July. The factory employs about 5,800 people, mainly blacks. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young helped persuade Chrysler to maintain the plant, however temporarily, by noting that the city has given the company a number of property-tax breaks in recent years...
Jaworski came to Washington alone and took a double suite at the Jefferson Hotel. His office, four blocks away, was a cramped, bare-walled cubicle with the curtains pulled to thwart snoopers. He walked unrecognized from hotel to office, a single figure among Washington's masses. Across McPherson Square and down two blocks was the White House, floodlighted, guarded, crawling with people and heavy with the trappings of power...