Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Should it be your intention, however, to issue this religious document, we would call to your attention a statement made by one of your predecessors, Thomas Jefferson, who, during his eight years as Chief Executive refused to issue religious proclamations. He said...
...call upon you to return to the precedent established by Jefferson. The annual issuance of the religious document known as the Thanksgiving Proclamation is highly offensive to many loyal American citizens who do not believe in God. To recommend that these Atheists gather in places of worship and give thanks to a being whose existence they deny is not in keeping with the secular spirit of our godless Constitution...
...instance which is dealt with in the volume concerns the administration of President Pierce, in 1855, when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. The Great American Desert was at that time a sizable obstacle in the way of transportation from the west to the east. Davis had, as Senator from Mississippi, conceived of the idea of inaugurating a camel route across the desert in order to relieve the situation, and when he became Secretary of War he secured an appropriation of $30,000 from Congress to carry out his scheme...
...Fluids in Motion", Professor Black Jefferson Physics...
...Barometers", Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...