Word: jeffersons
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...terms were deemed acceptable, the delegates unanimoufly felt that the final proviso would subject the colonies to an outrageously exorbitant and punitively expensive program of oral hygiene, and was therefore onerous and a deal breaker. Authorization was then given for Congress to receive the document being prepared by Messrs. Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, and word was sent to Genl. Washington to mufter the troops...
...presidential contest. Back then the Republicans were revolting and the President was arguing with the press about whether he had some relevance to the process of government. The week after the 1994 elections Time charitably said that, "if not gone, certainly radically diminished was the prospect of William Jefferson Clinton's gaining a second term." Yet, Tuesday night it was the same President who was beaming in front of the Old State House in Arkansas, having been reelected in an electoral college landslide...
Standardized testing was adopted early in this century, largely in pursuit of what Thomas Jefferson had called an "aristocracy of virtue and talent." Opportunities would be allotted on the basis of what you knew, not whom you knew. Reliance on tests grew, to compensate for the divergent standards in schoolrooms across the country. But tests cannot quantify qualities such as cooperativeness, creativity, or the perseverance a teenager needs to sit down in a two-room shack and do homework every night...
DRESSED TO KILL Government Exhibit 429: the T shirt Timothy McVeigh wore on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. The back reveals a tree with droplets of blood for leaves, and underneath is a 1787 inscription by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The front of the shirt shows a picture of Abraham Lincoln's face as if displayed on a wanted poster, and it is accompanied by the Latin phrase shouted by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater after he assassinated the Civil...
...decision places President Clinton squarely in the middle of a constitutional tug-of-war that U.S. Presidents have fought with the American judiciary since Thomas Jefferson rejected the idea that a sitting President could, or should, be compelled to testify in court. Five recent U.S. Presidents have given testimony in criminal cases. While Presidents Nixon and Reagan testified in courtrooms afterleaving office, Presidents Ford, Carter and Clinton gave videotaped testimony while serving. President Clinton did so in 1996, answering a Whitewater subpoena. In the present case, the Court gave Clinton at least one escape route: the justices gave the federal...