Word: jeffersonism
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...garage. Mother Christine Sannes Humphrey saw to it that her children attended the Methodist Sunday school and listened to Harry Emerson Fosdick on the radio. Father Hubert Sr. read to the kids each night, but instead of Peter Rabbit, their bedtime stories were the political theories of Jefferson and Paine, basic economics and the National Geographic. By the time he was ten, young Hubert was able-and boundlessly willing-to discuss the merits of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points...
...Stuart Symington promised, on a TV program, to "take my campaign into the homes, to the street corners and to the farms"-indeed, almost everywhere except to the primary ballot boxes. Symington also plans to advance his candidacy at a series of high-caloric political banquets, starting with a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Springfield, Mo., with Pennsylvania's Governor David Lawrence as the featured speaker, and a testimonial dinner in St. Louis on Feb. 20, with Harry Truman presiding. Said Symington last week: "I certainly would like to be President...
Against that abhorrent spectacle, and the memories of Hungary and other Communist conquests, the U.S. example of liberty under law, of self-restraint imposed by what Jefferson called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind," of willingness to use strength to protect independence stood out as powerful assets. Dwight Eisenhower had been shaped by those principles?and in 1959, carrying a message of peace with freedom to three far continents, he represented them to the world as could no one else...
Ayub Khan had shopped around to get ideas for his return to "basic democracies." The U.S. Information Service obligingly loaned its volumes on democracy, and Ayub boned up on Thomas Jefferson. In a series of private talks, then U.S. Ambassador James Langley briefed Ayub on the U.S. system. Though Ayub is Sandhurst-trained and an admirer of Britain, he wants to be free of the methods inherited from the British. "So long as I am alive and at the helm of affairs," he said last week, "there will not be parliamentary democracy in this country, because it cannot work. This...
...abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into his eyes and say: "God grant you wisdom, Mr. Davis." Later, he regrets not having "poured out his soul," but he wisely suppresses the impulse again when, in his presence. Abraham Lincoln worries about the Constitution and tells two stories of doubtful humor. Most...