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...during an emergency? asked one newsman. Well, answered Truman, everyone had better read his history and find out. There were lots of Presidents who could be mentioned. Pressed to name some, the President adopted his tartest professorial tones. Well, he said, there was a gentleman by the name of Jefferson who paid $15 million for the greatest addition to this country that has ever been made. They tried to impeach him for that, said Harry Truman, if he remembered correctly. Then there was a gentleman by the name of Tyler who agreed to annex Texas. And there were other gentlemen...
...constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims "the right to life, liberty and the enjoyment of property." It forbids wiretapping and capital punishment; it authorizes peaceful picketing. It also "recognizes the existence of" such aspirations as the right to work, to free schooling, "the right of every person to a standard of living adequate...
...Democratic platform for 1952: The President had already read it aloud in his Jefferson-Jackson Day speech...
Costa Rica. A rustic democracy fit to gladden Thomas Jefferson's heart...
...Middle East Command. But they refused to turn over to the Egyptians the Sudan, which Egypt now claims. Quite the opposite: fortnight ago Britain announced plans to hasten self-rule for the Sudanese. It was a blow to Hilaly Pasha: only the urging of King Farouk and U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery kept Hilaly from breaking off the talks then & there...