Thomas Jefferson Quotes
[Describing the White House:] Big enough for two emperors, one Pope and the Grand Lama.
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd President of the United States (Democratic Republican, VA), Quoted in Life, October 1992
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Chung was convicted for illegal campaign fundraising for the William Clinton administration.
The Supreme Court had decided to hear an important case on gun rights. Cheney had discovered that Solicitor General, the Administration’s chief lawyer before the Supreme Court, Paul Clement planned to file a brief that was very different from Cheney’s own personal views. In protest, he signed his name to a much stronger brief filed by 55 pro-gun senators and 250 members of the House of Representatives. The President’s Chief of Staff called Cheney on the carpet for doing something that was unforgivable—the Vice President had publicly criticized the position that the President’s (and the Vice President’s) chief lawyer was taking. See Cheney’s excuse {633773} . Bolton let the vice president know that if he ever tried something like this again, he would be frozen out of most government activities. In Bush’s second term Cheney had less and less influence, in part because of his unethical behavior like this.
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He had previously served as the second vice president of the United States under John Adams between 1797 and 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national levels.
