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...went on in his footnote to say that the great Chief Justice John Marshall had once ruled "that in proper circumstances a subpoena could be issued to the President." Upon closer examination, Chief Justice Marshall's opinion is not quite so clear. While he did subpoena President Thomas Jefferson to produce a letter he had received, for use by Aaron Burr in his treason trial, Marshall's language was elaborately conciliatory and courteous. As for Jefferson, he asserted that the court had no right to compel information, but he did voluntarily supply an edited version of the letter...
...Creator made a bad mistake. He liberated me. Invoking the names of Tolstoi and Jefferson, who in their own middle-age had freed their slaves, he said: "Arise, Mr. Trout, you are free, you are free." At the same time Vonnegut paradoxically decided the rest of my life for me. I was to become a respected thinker, win the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and die a fulfilled individual. I was shocked to learn this, but I wasn't the least bit thankful. Because my whole life, as he wrote it in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse Five and then...
...even grander destructive note, namely the destruction of his own fictional universe. "I am cleansing and renewing myself for the very different sorts of years to come," he tells his creation, Kilgore Trout, when they meet at Midland City. "Under similar spiritual conditions, Count Tolstoy freed his serfs. Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves. I am going to set at liberty all the literary characters who have served me so loyally during my writing career." It is, perhaps, the ultimate goal of every creator to prove his creation by destroying it (thus the Great Flood). Trollope finally became fairly sick...
...John Adams, writing to Thomas Jefferson...
...Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Joan L. Aron of Winthrop House and Newton; Cynthia A. Bates of Currier House and Newport News, Va.; Phyllis A. James of Currier House and Washington, D.C.; Patricia L. Lansdale of Adams House and Garrison, Md.; Martha E. Morgan of Quincy House and Jefferson City, Mo.; Barbara R. Peskin of South House and West Northfield, Ill.; Dale S. Russakoff of Lowell House and Birmingham, Ala.; and, Andrea R. Weiss of Lowell House and Wyncote...