Well im not giving anything away by saying that the left is a known jefferson and in the right doesnt own jefferson. The past owns jefferson. Every nation needs ennobling National Creation story. Thomas jefferson is indispensable to ours. I think it is not a scientific measure of anything, but you can learn something by taking note of the cabinet room in the white house where the president meets with his cabinet. And i thought that over the years to look at early photographs and read stories in the new york times, every four years when a new president comes into office, the cabinet room is redecorated and portraits are hung on its wall. So harry truman placed on the wall of the cabinet room for portraits of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and woodrow wilson. After his retirement from the presidency in 1953 truman remarked to a reporter, Thomas Jefferson is my favorite character in history. When eisenhower became president , he put up William Howard taft and George Washington replacing
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choir singing the Angel Gabriel was sent from god to a city of galilee named. Narrator every sunday, in every corner of the world. The virgin, betrothed to a man whose name. Narrator . People gather to hear a story. And the virgins name was mary. Narrator for more than 2,000 years, that story has been told and retold. And to bear a son. Narrator along the way, each generation has found in its telling its own meaning and interpretation. . You shall call his name jesus. narrator that story, of a man called jesus of nazareth, a man who became jesus christ, was originally told by his first followers. . And be called the son of the most high. narrator . And then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. The gospel according to st. Luke. Narrator so began the building of a religion. Now it is our turn, with the help of scholars and historians, theologians and archaeologists, to return to that time and use our best efforts to understand that story. Of a man born in obscurity in wh