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To: Mount Athos

How can one make a list like that without Thomas Jefferson?

Yes, he had his faults, but his writings and thoughts shaped America more so than some of the others.


21 posted on 07/05/2015 3:13:38 AM PDT by some tech guy (Stop trying to help, Obama)
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To: some tech guy

Jefferson would turn up on a list of words over deeds.

He ran away as governor from Richmond and gave it up without so much as a plan.

He did not openly give up slaves though he said he would.

The best thing Jefferson did was get the LA Purchase and set out to slap down the Barbary pirates (others to fight). And that was well after the RevWar.


30 posted on 07/05/2015 1:35:34 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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