Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, Buchanan often appeals less to economic logic than to nationalistic nostalgia. Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...
...urge more faculty members to break out of their cocoons in William James, Littauer, Robinson, Jefferson, Boylston and Warren House. Without the involved participation of many informed faculty members, the Faculty Council will become even more of a rubber stamp for the decisions of a sometimes misguided administration...
...Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor and the Christian Socialists. Yet almost from the outset, the Party was as negative as it was diversely constituted. Georgian populist Tom Watson, one of the Party's guiding lights, was infamous for such enlightened remarks as, "Did [Jefferson] dream that in 100 years or less...red-eyed Jewish millionaires would be chiefs of that [Democratic] Party, and that the liberty and prosperity of the country would be...constantly and corruptly sacrificed to Plutocratic greed in the name of Jeffersonian Democracy?" And he was not alone...
Clinton, our domestic Gorbachev, surrenders 200 years of gain by the non-rich in America and devastatingly compromises our personal economic security, our environment, our Internet and all our public assets as the voices of Thomas Jefferson's and Franklin D. Roosevelt's and John F. Kennedy's followers are stilled within the world's oldest political party...
...plumb the rich psychic themes of Steve Forbes' relationship with his flamboyant father, the late Malcolm Forbes Sr. His father, after all, is the man who used to make his children practice the bagpipes and wear matching kilts to church on Sundays; who bought a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's claret for $157,000; who rode motorcycles and hot-air balloons, escorted Elizabeth Taylor and collected homoerotic art, Faberge eggs, 12,000 toy soldiers, an island in Fiji, a chateau in Normandy and a palace in Morocco...