Word: jeffersonism
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...thoughtful people are still swayed by the idea that the presidency is a kind of political purgatory because of its loneliness and burdens. Thomas Jefferson liked plantation life better than running an uncertain new Government and started the idea of a "splendid misery" along the Potomac. Today political opponents often find it comforting to believe that the other fellow is yearning for home...
...from its beginnings to the present time. At its inception, medicine was essentially based upon the natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching bones can be found in the masses of data available...
Before Francis Nakano became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles in 1982, the school was a combat zone. Teachers walked in fear of assault, gangs roamed the litter-strewn hallways, students were arrested for drug dealing, and vandals had just burned the administration building to the ground. The tough new principal changed all that. He painted the school, put in an alarm system, provided enough lunch benches for students to eat sitting down and bought some trash cans. He made each teacher responsible for the behavior of 120 students, and gang leaders were bluntly told...
...Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe watched. The delegates there from the states kept their hats on to demonstrate civil ascendancy. Washington's farewell took about three minutes and the response from Thomas Mifflin, president of Congress, was just as brief. A snowstorm was on the way and Washington, his saddlebags packed with presents for the children at Mount Vernon, wanted to be home on Christmas Eve for the season of peace on earth. Seven years of war were over at last...
...South had a special feeling for the last Whig, Millard Fillmore. The Midwest gave Truman and Ike an edge. In almost every instance, a historian studying a specific President was more sympathetic to him. Military historians downgraded the Naval Academy's own Jimmy Carter. Afro-American historians rated Jefferson relatively lower; Western and Frontier historians put him higher...