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...turned out, little love has been lost over the years. Only rarely have the two officials been the best of friends. Fairly typical was Thomas Jefferson's description of his No. 2 man, Aaron Burr: "A crooked gun or other perverted instrument, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of." Or Hubert Humphrey's relations with his No. 1 man, Lyndon Johnson: "The only time I saw Johnson was when he ran out of people to chew on and raised hell with...
...ONLY UAW members who probably are not satisfied with the "30 and out" provision of the contract are the foundry workers at the Jefferson Plant, about five miles east of downtown Detroit. They were asking for full benefits after 25 years. Most employees from other segments of the assembly line agree that their Jefferson brothers, who statistically have lower life expectancies, rate...
...whines. To a man, the Presidents feel frustrated by Congress (even Washington, who once went to the Senate to lobby for a treaty, and left saying "He'd be damned if he ever went there again"). They also feel bedeviled by Chief Justices - beginning with what Thomas Jefferson called the "twistifications" of John Marshall. Unappreciated by the people. Lonely. Unable to trust anybody. James Polk, a modest man who is regarded as a great President (he reduced the tariff and handled the annexation of California in 1848), spoke for all Presidents, and the source of Polk's pique...
...Back in the age of reason, Thomas Jefferson wrote this clear and direct sentence: "The whole of government consists in the art of being honest." With all its simplicity, that statement expressed a profound conviction that truth could be a powerful tool of statesmanship. But in the world of today this seems to be a minority view...
...Cloud's dialectic misses an essential irony. It wasn't so much that Hamilton wanted to cut off Jefferson's "people" from participation as that Hamilton had a pessimistic estimate of the people's ability to distinguish between good and evil within the context of a rapidly developing industrial society. Hamilton's disciplined aristocracy should at least have ruled with a sense of tradition, proportion and decorum...