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...similar runoff in 1962 and the 237,000 by which his late wife Lurleen won the Democratic primary for Governor in 1966. More than half a million voters refused to go along with George this time, although possibly half of those were blacks. In one black precinct in Jefferson County, Brewer's margin was 2,149 to 24; in a Montgomery precinct, it was 2,829 to 227. The Governor's other strength came mainly from affluent suburbs and middle-and upper-class white neighborhoods of large cities, where the new, enlightened Alabama is taking shape. The decisive...
...were carefully sorted out in the Yard in a caste system. The floor I lived on in Thayer there was only one real upper-class type-Lewis Jefferson Proctor [St. Paul's]. His father was head of American Telephone for South America. He died in 1958 of sheer decadence on the Riviera...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Jefferson Barnes Fordham, L.H.D., dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Martin Meyerson, LL.D., president-designate of the University of Pennsylvania. The first president in the university's history to be chosen by a consensus of faculty, trustees and students...
According to James Madison, the President would thus have "power to repel sudden attacks." To many scholars the implication is clear. The President was to initiate emergency defensive operations; Congress was to remain responsible for all offensive ones. Said Thomas Jefferson: "We have given one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from those who are to spend to those...
...Congress authorized naval seizures of American merchant ships going to French ports. But President John Adams went further and ordered the seizure of American ships leaving those ports as well, and the Supreme Court held that he had exceeded the intent of Congress. As Administration defenders often note, President Jefferson felt free to send naval vessels to protect U.S. ships against the Barbary pirates. Nonetheless, Jefferson carefully refused to allow his commanders to hold even captured pirate vessels until Congress had approved action "beyond the line of defense...