Word: jeffersonism
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Among those who gathered in Philadelphia in 1776, Adams was one of the first to advocate independence. The following year, he was sent as an envoy to Paris, where he worked with Benjamin Franklin and later Thomas Jefferson. They were both more polished and popular than Adams--and certainly less Puritan in their approach to the pleasures of Paris. After the war Adams became America's first ambassador to England, where he again proved stiffly reliable but devoid of the courtiers' charms that counted for so much in the world of European diplomacy...
...efforts tarred Adams as a closet monarchist and made him a target for those too timid to take on Washington directly. Adams' great goal was to keep American politics nonpartisan. In that he failed. When Washington retired, the election of 1796 became the first between two parties, with Jefferson leading what was then known as the Republicans and Adams the unenthusiastic choice of the Federalists. Indeed, it was only because of the advent of party politics, and the Federalists' ability to scrape together enough electors one last time, that Adams was able to win his single term...
...president, and if you drop out (as Dick Cheney did) you get to be vice president, and about not being able to remember everything that happened to him at Yale. The effect was not endearing, but demeaning to the office that was held by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt. I have tried for months to be fair to George W. Bush, but that scene in New Haven gave me a rush of something like contempt...
...people than you do," William Earl Faggert is telling me in the office of the Heidelberg Academy, a private southeastern Mississippi school where he is headmaster. We are sitting in his office--or is it a Confederate museum? It has more than a dozen rebel flags, a portrait of Jefferson Davis, a beautifully bound Bible. His shirt pocket is stitched with a Confederate symbol and the words WAVE THE FLAG. I wonder how he could possibly determine which of us knows more black people...
...Jefferson enters the court posing as an ambassador from “England” a country of which none of the Delphinans have ever heard. He goes about his mission without difficulty and becomes an accepted member of the Delphinian court. But there is one problem: he falls in love with the king’s daughter, and is torn between loyalty to his country and professing his love to Princess Celeste (Raya D. Terry ’04). This, of course, causes Jefferson to question his allegiances and provides the conflict of the play...