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...summer of 1953, a Yale alumnus happened to make a remark to President Griswold: "Look, Princeton has its Jefferson. Why don't we have Franklin at Yale?" Griswold promptly began consulting with the Yale University Press, then started raising the money. Most of the $600,000 which the project will cost came in one lump from TIME Inc. on behalf of LIFE, the Philosophical Society contributing the balance. After that, Griswold and Roberts decided to go ahead...
...amazing redefinition of the Vice President's job can be appreciated by a glance at the records of some of the first 35. They included a generous proportion of nonentities, some able men, and four towering figures: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun and Theodore Roosevelt. Not one-not even the four greats-made anything of the job of Vice President...
Adams, who knew world political history as few men before or since his time, said that the vice' presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Jefferson found the post "tranquil and unoffending," assuring him of "philosophical evenings in winter" and "rural days in summer." When Henry Clay, defeated for the presidency, sourgraped, "I'd rather be right than President," John C. Calhoun, just elected Vice President, said: "Well, I guess it's all right to be half right-and Vice President." But it wasn...
...Aaron Burr (1801-05), who put the accent on the vice. Taking advantage of a gimmick (since corrected) in the Constitution, Burr, running for Vice President with Jefferson (who was running for President), was almost able to get the top job for himself. While he was Vice President, Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, was indicted for murder, skipped to Georgia, returned to preside over the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, made a moving farewell address to the Senate and slammed the door when he walked...
...would rather call off the deal and give the Government back the $20,000 it has paid him so far. In that case, Hansen says, he might give his Liberty to President Syngman Rhee of Korea, whom he regards as "a champion like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson of the ideals of democracy and freedom...