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...bicentennial of his re-election as President, Jefferson still intrigues Americans for another reason: his tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a passionate, somewhat elusive human being. When his wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving...
...middle-aged couples (read: my parents) queued up to see director and gadfly Michael Moore’s most controversial film to date. Oh and then there were a few others: the groups carrying signs and enlisting moviegoers to help protest the Republican National Convention in August; the well-spoken beggar who dispassionately argued his case to theater patrons (“My, you look nice tonight. I don’t drink or do drugs, but I do need some money”); and lastly two blonde men in pastel polo walking by. With a sneer, one said...
HAVE YOU TALKED TO HIM ABOUT IT? I told him that everyone I have spoken to who was there--and these people are diverse in their interests--says he said what needed to be said...
BREMER:We were consistent. I must have spoken publicly about it every couple of weeks, beginning from May all the way through. I encouraged the Governing Council to speak to that effect; they did not do as good a job as they might have done. And in fact, of course, most of the Baath Party members were not affected. If there were 11,000 or 12,000 teachers who were affected badly because of the implementation by the Council, even that is a small percentage of the 2 million people who were members of the Party. And I must tell...
...landed him two actress wives: the first, Oscar winner Jane Wyman; the second, Nancy Davis, who would be his and America's First Lady. Acting schooled Reagan in the hortatory oratory of movie dialogue--speeches crafted to sell an ideal or an emotion and still sound like plain-spoken common sense--a technique he used so persuasively in politics. And acting created the image of a pleasing persona: "Ronald Reagan," a collaboration of the man, the actor he became and the roles he was given to play. Where's the rest of President Reagan...