Word: jeffersons
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Ronald Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson spurned carriages and escorts on his Inauguration Day in 1801. Instead, he strolled from his boardinghouse with some friends to the Capitol, where he took the oath of office and became the third U.S. President. He walked back for lunch -- probably with Reagan...
...overlay of Oxford and Yale, and a duty-driven Republican reared in the nation's richest suburb and now in possession of the most majestic and mighty political office in the world. Given the country's suspicions of bigness and power, planted long ago by Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson, it is not at all an uneven contest...
...Jefferson said she has never found it hard to stand out as a Republican in Massachusetts because she is "not influenced by what others...
...Mildred Jefferson, a delegate from the eight congressional district, which includes Cambridge, is one of the delegates who vehemently opposed Weld for his views on abortion and homosexual rights...
...very unhappy that Gov. Weld has chosen position on abortion and homosexuality that don't stand the test of history on social issues," said Jefferson, past-president of the National Right to Life Committee. "I wanted the first Republican governor in 20 years to achieve a distinguished record, but that can't happen with any policy that expends human lives...