Word: jeffersons
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...Thomas Jefferson...
...SAID IT? From the top: Martin Luther William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Rene Descartes Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Sir Henry Morton Stanley Franklin D. Roosevelt Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong...
...perception that matters. Which candidate didn't mention any members of his family? Which candidate did not say he personally had held a crack baby--but only that his wife had? Which candidate announced that "democracies are our friends"? Well, Herbert Ross Perot, George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton respectively...
Politician, always a swear word in America, has now become a deadly insult -- though it is a little hard to understand why. Are we just learning that politicians say one thing to get elected and do something entirely different once they win? Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt both promised to shrink the government's powers when campaigning, and both men expanded those powers as President. The politician is evasive if not duplicitous? The method of choosing candidates is arbitrary if not corrupt? The candidate hides his or her real views while trying to please diverse constituencies? All that has been...
...attack on politicians is misguided when it focuses on the political operator's hedging or hesitating ways. George Washington stalled and twisted to wrest compromise from his Secretaries of State (Jefferson) and the Treasury (Hamilton). Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism under a cover of anticapitalist rhetoric. Dwight Eisenhower, under a bland exterior, conducted what historian Fred Greenstein calls a hidden-hand presidency. Other Presidents -- from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter -- were unsuccessful because they were not politicians, were not sufficiently able to bend themselves in order to bend others...