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Reagan's pilgrimage to the feet of Jefferson was a bit of a sacrilege. Jefferson hated political speeches. He also thought it was unwise to hang around the swamps of Washington in the summer. Despite criticism, the Virginian paid long visits to Monticello, where both air and mind were clearer. Yet there is a resonance now between Jefferson's warnings and Reagan's present-day fears of a Government so big and costly that it ultimately breaks America's spirit...
...sons and a daughter, spent much of his time folding up ambitious personal and social commitments he has made. He scrapped a grand plan to remodel the family's ten-bedroom house, situated on 200 acres of land in New York's Westchester County, to look like Jefferson's Monticello. Far more painful, no doubt, was his decision to withdraw from the many prominent positions that had given him a measure of social status, including his posts as a trustee of the American Ballet Theater and finance director for the National Jewish Coalition. He canceled a $1.5 million grant...
...Malone, though at the time they were first introduced, Jefferson was still miffed that his original text had been edited by the Continental Congress. Jefferson was not even in the limelight. He was poking around Philadelphia, buying a thermometer and seven pairs of ladies' gloves before going home to Monticello. Years later, he said his intention had been "to place before mankind the common sense of the subject." Jefferson, as much as any man of his time, believes Malone, had already focused on the future and was deeply concerned about the daunting task of translating the Declaration into "legal institutions...
Thomas Jefferson, author of our blueprint for independence and designer of Monticello and the University of Virginia, said it confidently: "Architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favorite amusements." Heirs to the Palladian vision are more subdued. The modern couple who decide to build a house had better check their marital foundations first. For his part, the architect must patiently extract straight lines from his clients' tangled desires. He must also establish a working truce with his natural enemy, the builder. Then there is the money, probably the largest amount most people will ever...
...have it, you're never going to lose it," explains Oscar Robertson, 44. "The Big O" was back under the hoops last week along with Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Cousy and Jack Twyman, among other N.B.A. old-timers who showed up at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, N.Y., for a game to raise funds for needy pro-basketball players. Indeed, the old stars do still seem to have it. Cousy, 55, handled the ball with magical dexterity, and when 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain, 46, slam-dunked a basket, the crowd roared as if "Wilt the Stilt...