Word: jeffersonism
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...Only Jay, Adams and Franklin actually served. Thomas Jefferson never left the U.S. to take up his assignment; Henry Laurens was captured at sea by the British, and after his release devoted himself more to private than to public business...
...Young Americans for Freedom, Americans for Constitutional Action, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Daughters of the American Revolution, Conservative Society of America, Liberty Lobby, Americans for National Security, Chris, tian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Crusade, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Labor Youth League, Civil Rights Congress, Communist Party, Jefferson School of Social Science, New York School for Marxist Studies, Young Communist League, American Peace Crusade, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Nation of Islam, International Workers Order, Washington Bookshop Association, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, or the Southern Conference for Human Welfare...
Moyers' own philosophy is expressed in a slightly truncated quote from Thomas Jefferson that hangs on his office wall: "The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate object of good government." As he sees it, that observation is "the charter" of the Johnson Administration. "The umbilical cord of the Great Society," he says, "runs right back to the Founding Fathers...
Under the terms of the proposal, PBH would expand its present tutorial and recreational projects in the Roosevelt Towers neighborhood, and establish programs in the Jefferson Park neighborhood near Fresh Pond and in Cambridgeport, an area west of M.I.T. and south of Central Square...
...Boston might help man the new Cambridge projects. "PBH is anxious to cooperate with the CEOC," Miss Gillam explained, "but we may simply not have enough volunteers to manage all three 'target areas.' PBH certainly won't abandon any of its present programs to work in Cambridgeport and Jefferson Park...