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To: Liz
his memoir, Jackie's dress designer said Jack told him he would never quote Jefferson in a presidential speech b/c of the man's antipathy towards Catholics

I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet. Whatever he may have lacked, if he could have had his former colleague, Mr. Franklin, hear we all would have been impressed.

John F. Kennedy Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere.… April 29, 1962

Source. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-dinner-honoring-nobel-prize-winners-the-western-hemisphere

42 posted on 09/14/2025 2:40:27 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto

I sure would rather have had JFK, than Biden for the four years he was here...


43 posted on 09/14/2025 5:11:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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