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That night at the Harvard Club, a new political party movement was born. Five days later, Colonel Robert McCormick, patriarch of the Chicago Tribune, issued the call on his radio program. Asking "followers of Jefferson and Lincoln to repudiate Truman and Dewey," he accused the backers of General Eisenhower of "supporting socialism in Europe as a prelude to bringing it here." The Colonel urged Americans not to cast a vote for President this year, but to look hopefully toward 1956 and a new party...
...rest of the witnesses were just as recalcitrant. Louis Relin, teacher of English at Abraham Lincoln High School, called the subcommittee "improper," flatly refused to say whether or not he was or ever had been a Communist. Another teacher, Lou Spindell of Straubenmuller Textile High School, summoned Jefferson to his defense. Refusing to say whether he had been a Communist, he declaimed: "What was good enough for T.J. is good enough for me." "I assume," said Ferguson, "that by T.J. you mean Thomas Jefferson ... It is not a legal reason [for not answering]." Spindell tried another tack: like the other...
Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Campbell earned his B.A. at Washington and Jefferson College. He later studied at the Law School where he received the degree of Laws and Doctor of Jurisprudence...
...George Washington's autograph on the first page of his Bible. ¶ The Eliot Indian Bible of 1663, first complete Bible to be printed in America (translated into the language of the Algonquin Indians by the Rev. John Eliot). ¶ The so-called "Jefferson Bible," a red morocco-bound copybook, in which Jefferson, a deist, pasted the words of Jesus as clipped from Bible texts. ¶ President Truman's inauguration Bible, in which he noted in ink on the flyleaf: "There was much scurrying around to find this book on which to take the oath...
...Fossil. Few of his contemporaries won his affection, fewer still his awe. President Buchanan he labeled "Old Pennsylvania Fossil." Andrew Jackson, he noted, had done the U.S. "more harm than any man who ever lived in it. unless it may have been Tom Jefferson." Boss Tweed he crowned "His Scoundrelism...