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Being the front yard of American power, the park has seen a lot of casual history. Thomas Jefferson walked over to the Madison house on one occasion to pay a call on his successor. Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward, was gravely wounded in his house on the square the night that Lincoln was shot...
...with the Vietnam war. Lenin's successor whispers friendly greetings in Nixon's ear, and announces solemnly that anyone who does not believe in the eternal coexistence of incompatible economic systems is insane. Kissinger goes back to Peking. The Democrats let the Republicans stew in their own juice. The Jefferson Airplane break up; the Carpenters pack the halls. Bobby Seale puts on suit and tie and runs for Mayor of Oakland. At least half of New York City's Democratic Party coalesces around its official candidate for mayor. Rennie Davis makes speeches for the 15-year-old Perfect Master...
Lambert, former executive secretary of the National Education Association, on a White House "enemy" list because he opposed federal aid to parochial schools. "Here is a man listed among the opponents whose only offense is that he believed in the First Amendment and shared Thomas Jefferson's conviction, as expressed in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, that to compel a man to make contributions of money for the dissemination of religious opinions he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical. Isn't that true...
Under the twin effects of the Depression and Browder's American-tailored revolutionary doctrine ("We have no different definition of revolution than that given by Thomas Jefferson," he liked to say), the party drew ever more members-close...
...several of his greatest houses stand in tracts of the Venetian countryside that are out of the way today and must have been almost inaccessible to travelers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Yet his principles were studied as avidly in Stockholm and Leningrad as they were by Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, or by the elite of English Palladian architects like Inigo Jones, William Kent and Lord Burlington. By 1850, two continents were dotted with Palladian structures. Even Jefferson's design for the President's Mansion was a copy of the Villa Rotonda near Vicenza...