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...part federal aid bill that would cost $1.25 billion for the first year and touch every level of education, from kindergartens to public libraries to graduate schools. The President calls it "a prudent and balanced program." and he wants it passed at one gulp, taking his text from Thomas Jefferson: "Let us keep our eye steadily on the whole system...
States rights and local self-government are older than the Constitution. They existed before the Union was formed and were recognized and protected by Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers when they wrote the Constitution itself...
...demonstrate his own friendliness, he grandly asked--nay, pleaded--that everyone visit his great state and see the unparalleled wonders of its progress. To identify his cause with the heritage of his listeners he solemnly invoked irrelevant parts of Massachusetts' history. He threw in the names of Jefferson, Webster, Washington and others, not in the context of sentences, but as stark monuments to the Americanism of his views. He intoned them with severity. He emphasized with a shaking fist...
More Than Wings. Burns devotes nearly two-thirds of his book to tracing the historical development of this four-party pattern. He writes, "The congressional Democrats began as the Madison party in Congress and the presidential [Democratic] party was founded and built by Jefferson. The symbolic founder of the Republican presidential party was Abraham Lincoln; the congressional [Republican] party had its origin in the opposition to Pierce and Buchanan on the Hill during the 1850s and with the congressional Republicans who went on to fight Lincoln during the Civil War and to dominate Reconstruction...
Speaking before some 150 scientists and administrative officials in the Jefferson Physics Laboratory, Harvey Brooks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Physics, said the use of the computing center by all departments could prove "a very important unifying force in the University...