Word: jeffersonism
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...above all by the frequency with which Nixon has distorted the truth and lied outright in the past. These deceptions range from his tales of respect for Cambodian neutrality when his bombers had been killing Cambodians for two years to his misrepresentations of Elliot Richardson's and Thomas Jefferson's political positions during his press conference last week. Henry Kissinger is of course correct in saying that questions about the motives behind the alert are symptomatic of what's happening to the United States; but it is the president, not the press, who has created the disease...
...CHARLES JEFFERSON...
Cordiality, however, did not survive that first Administration. When Adams succeeded Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the leader of the opposition Republican Party, became Vice President. A split within the dominant Federalist Party caused Jefferson to come in second in the balloting for President in the Electoral College. Thus he was automatically named Vice President. This mixup could not be repeated after 1804 when the Twelfth Amendment was passed providing that the two offices had to be distinguished on the ballot...
...been lost to history because he has had to discontinue them. It probably was a mistake to start it in the first place, though I must say we'd know an awful lot more about the country and the world if we had something like this from Lincoln and Jefferson...
...measure of Western-style hero-worship thrown in. The Cao Dai, whose temples were adorned with the Masonic eye, considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered and dropped as a candidate for sainthood at about the same time...