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To: Khurkris
I don't see any problems with his observations.

This is because you have not yet learned much about history.

Consider:

Jefferson's wife was in intimate daily contact ... with her husband's concubine.
Jefferson's wife died when Sally Hemmings was not yet nine years old.

or this other quote I picked:

As originally built his bedroom [at Monticello] accorded him no privacy at all, a curious oversight considering he had a passion for being alone and unobserved. Thereafter the search for privacy became an obsession in the many changes of design ... Contemporaries assumed they were there so his alleged mistress, Sally Hemmings, could slip in and out of his chamber unobserved.
and contrast it with this written by Mr. Jefferson's granddaughter in 1858:
His apartments had no private entrance not perfectly accessible and visible to all the household. No female domestic ever entered his chambers except at hours when he was known not to be there, and none could have entered without being exposed to the public gaze.
Do you have other information, or has your thought been poisoned by the "All Presidents do it," stories told by the Great Stainmaker and his minions?

ML/NJ

11 posted on 11/02/2005 5:55:49 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

McCoullough did a good job of exposing this Sally Hemmings story for the lie it is. People are complicated and Jefferson had short comings, but Hemmings was not one of them. I find the way people carelessly bandy about this nonsense is disgusting.


15 posted on 11/02/2005 6:18:43 PM PST by expat_panama
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To: ml/nj

Knock off the ridiculous clinton* minions insults.

I happen to agree with his comments regarding 'anti-Americanism' in Europe.

They may not be as all inclusive as I would write, but they have a ring of truth to them.

His comments about Jefferson do not negate the validity of his article here.

And your snide comments lessen your impact.


20 posted on 11/02/2005 6:55:14 PM PST by Khurkris (Ain't life funny?)
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