Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January 1961, Senator Clinton Anderson introduced his new blonde receptionist to Jackson. She was Helen Hardin, a divorcee, daughter of the president of American Gypsum Co. in Albuquerque and graduate of Scripps College and Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree in contemporary literature, specializing in Virginia Woolf. A date for tea in the Senate dining room led to bicycling dates and to marriage in December. Jackson was 49; his wife...
...George Wallace. It extends to those whose potential candidacies may only be a gleam in someone's eyes, be it only their own, such as New York Governor Hugh Carey, California Governor Jerry Brown, Illinois Governor Dan Walker, Pennsylvania Governor Mil ton Shapp, Idaho Senator Frank Church, West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, Ohio Senator John Glenn, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, Boston Mayor Kevin White. But any list must include six men who are either already seeking the nomination or have winning personalities and significant regional support...
...such a view, each portraying the revered Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in a new and unflattering light. Last week Virginius Dabney, a proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...
...Jefferson was indeed the father and he insisted that there is no reliable evidence to support that assertion-and much evidence to the contrary. Dabney enlisted statements from three Jefferson historians to refute the paternity claim. He said that Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson of the University of Virginia and Julian P. Boyd, editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson, all agreed that the Brodie book was based on "half-truths, unwarranted assumptions and grievous misinterpretation of the known facts...
Country roads, take me home to the place where I belong West Virginia...