Word: jeffersonism
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Doffing his cowboy hat to the initial applause he proceeded to sing the best from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...
...Julian P. Boyd, historian, editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson-L.H.D. Holding with Thomas Jefferson that "no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness" than "the diffusion of knowledge among the people," you have by your masterly editing of his papers attained leadership in searching out and presenting the history of humanity...
...recalls Dirksen, his amendment package was "in pretty tangible shape." At Dirksen's suggestion, Humphrey arranged for a bipartisan meeting between Senate and Administration leaders. The place: Dirksen's leadership office with the tinkling chandelier that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The participants: Dirksen, Mansfield, Humphrey, California's Republican Senator Tom Kuchel, Attorney General Kennedy, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and a sprinkling of liberals, moderates and conservatives from both parties...
Some 140 guests sat at small round tables as lanterns mounted on bamboo poles swayed in the soft breeze. In the background, across the south lawn, night lights played over the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial...
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE George H. Love, chairman of the board, Chrysler Corp. and Consolidation Coal Co.-LL.D...