Word: jeffersonism
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Only rarely since the days of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson has a man with the stature of Nelson Rockefeller risen to the U.S. vice presidency. Indeed, Rockefeller brings to his new job an unprecedented portfolio of assets: more than a third of a century's experience in state and Federal Government; countless personal contacts among politicians, academicians and businessmen in the U.S. and abroad; legendary wealth; a lustrous name; an extroverted personality. How can President Ford make the best use of the enormously capable, ambitious, idealistic-and also arrogant-man whom he has nominated...
...Force One was 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Mo.-Middle America by geographical as well as political definition-when Richard Nixon became an ex-President and a private citizen. It was the 2,027th day of his presidency-896 days short of a full two terms. Tricia Nixon Cox and her husband Edward listened to President Ford's first speech on a radio in the plane, but Nixon and Pat did not leave their separate compartments to hear...
...notion of majority rule developed, and got its philosophical sanction from John Locke, who greatly influenced the founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton warned that if "a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater." Though Thomas Jefferson could proclaim in his first Inaugural Address that "the minority possess their equal rights," he called it a "sacred principle" that "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail." That being so, what is so equal about minority rights...
...Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie...
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, U.S. historian: Washington and Jefferson. Both had character and intelligence, and people had confidence in them. Leadership is intangible. You can't define all the parts...