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...scheduled closing day, Sept. 17, but then it was finally time to sign. Three of the delegates present still had objections and refused, among them Virginia's Governor Randolph. The rest, however, generally subscribed to Franklin's declaration that although he too still had doubts and reservations, "I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better." He had decided that the sun on Washington's chair was rising...
...took longer to develop their gifts, and painting, in any case, never seemed as good a political instrument to the Founding Fathers as architecture. Benjamin West (1738-1820), born in Springfield, Pa., to Quaker parents, was the first major American painter to make a career in Europe; he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. West might be known as the American Raphael, but this praise was as excessive as Lord Byron's dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble dotard, West,/ Europe's worst dauber, and poor Britain's best...
...Robert Earl, a North aide, contributed his own secret messages. Ever helpful, she asked North whether she should destroy telephone logs and her copies of computer messages too. Yes, he said. But didn't she know what she was destroying? a committee lawyer asked. "I really didn't notice, sir," she replied frostily. "I was just purely doing...
...part-time model displayed a steely quality before the committee, interrupting some questioners and reeling off a well-practiced "I don't recall." While cameras clicked, Hall sat pertly at the table, often whispering to her lawyer and punctuating her answers with a curt "sir" stapled at the end. When Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen said he did not think North was entitled to a grant of immunity in exchange for his testimony, Hall objected. "I think that Colonel North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights that you yourself do, sir." Surprised, Cohen paused...
...about his heroics on San Juan Hill into a political career that eventually, after McKinley's assassination in 1901, lands him in the White House. Empire is, to put it mildly, not kind to Roosevelt. Nearly all the characters extol his predecessor. Hay tells McKinley, "You may be tired, sir, but you've accomplished a great deal more than any President since Mr. Lincoln, and even he didn't acquire an empire for us, which you have done." Roosevelt, by contrast, is the "fat little President," a bellicose figure of fun with a falsetto voice, a habit of clicking...