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...greedy ones, when they were in power, says Williams, Christian principles did not have a prayer. One of their principal sins was wild territorial expansion, such as smirched Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin ("It is difficult to think of Franklin as a scientist if only because he invested so much time and intelligence in land speculation"). This expansionist drive brought on the Civil War as well as World War II, says Williams, and has been checked now only because Russia has nuclear bombs. Other sins of the greedy guys: the policy of "laissez nous faire," carried...
...plastered a pair of GOLDWATER IN 1964* stickers on his car. "As I drove around," he said, "I'd have people stopping me at traffic lights and shouting, 'Say, where can I get one of these?' Nobody has made such an impression on people here since Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun...
...Steinbeck has other heavy ironies to put in the moral fire, and at book's end, Ethan owns the world of New Baytown but he has, of course, lost his own soul. How does he learn that? He discovers that his son has cribbed from the speeches of Jefferson, Webster, Lincoln and Henry Clay to win a nationwide TV essay contest...
Previous award winners are Langley Keyes (soccer and lacrosse), Jefferson Coolidge (football and hockey), Robert Rittenburg (track), James Jorgenson (swimming), John Simourian (football and baseball), Dale Junta (tennis), Robert Foster (football and wrestling), and Dyke Benjamin (cross country and track...
Secretary Udall, who happens to be a friend of long standing, has asked me as a personal favor to him to solicit the Oil and Gas Industry in Washington in an effort to help the Secretary dispose of his "very sizable quota of tickets for the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner." Tickets are $100 per plate. Send your check...