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...York for, he had forgotten to ask me before, he said. To write my thesis, just to hole up and write it, I said. I told him it was about the way people reacted to the French Revolution and he asked me who. I said Jefferson and Adams and those guys and he said oh. Then we got out on the platform and picked up our baggage and I saw the holes in the suitcase for myself. Tom and I shook hands and I wished him luck and he said the same to you. I asked Chuck what...
...Times, The Kingdom and the Power, that Reston's America "was a land in which the citizens seemed not so disenchanted, the police not so brutal, the United States's bombing in Vietnam not entirely unjustified, the politicans in Washington not so self-serving, the age of Jefferson not so long ago or lost in essence...
...precedent is a guide, the President has ample reason not to show up in person. As Judge Ringer noted: "U.S. v. Burr is commanding." At the time of the 1807 treason trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr, President Thom as Jefferson informed the Government attorney that he would not appear in court to testify, arguing that the separation-of-powers principle did not permit him to get involved in a series of court proceedings. But when Chief Justice John Marshall issued a subpoena or dering Jefferson to produce a batch of letters and documents, he submitted some of them...
...course, our eyes are prepared for it by modern art. The Flag Gate, found in Jefferson County, N.Y., with its wavy battens of red-painted wood delicately mimicking the ripple of fabric stripes in a breeze, inevitably suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident. Likewise, a deliciously anthropomorphic wool winder (see cut), with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate...
...grand jury investigation, I must thank him for acting on a much neglected moral premise: no system can provide justice (or anything else) automatically There is no substitute for people who care enough to work for what is right. Perhaps Krause personifies Jefferson's dictum. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance...