History promote such a polarization of Public Opinion. Well he has supporters that organize festivals in his honor, they praised him in speeches and song. His detractors portrayed him as a dilettante and a demagogue. Doublefaced and dangerously radical. An atheist, hostile to christianity. Characterizing his believes as unamerican, they target with the extremism of the french revolution. His allies call him the formerly anonymous author of the declaration of independence. His bifurcated image took shape because of his own creation. And because of factors out of his control. America positives about jefferson reflected their views of america. Robert s mcdonald is a professor of history at the United States military academy where he has taught since 1998. He is a graduate of the university of virginia and the university of North Carolina at chapel hill where he earned his phd. A special on Thomas Jefferson and the early republic, he has published several journals and other essays. The aut
0 this morning, talk of a deal. question mark intentional. we have new developments involving russia and france that are unlike anything we have seen in modern diplomacy. president obama sat with wolf blitzer. we ll tell you what he had to say and all of these questions that we have this morning. we have a team of experts to break down the possibilities. mr. john king and ms. christiane amanpour, all here to talk about what s going to happen. we also have mr. john mccain. plus, diana nyad set to face her critics today. some in the long distance swimming world are questioning whether she could actually have pull off that amazing swim in the way that she claimed. we hear from some of the skeptic and also we ll hear directly from her team. and speaking of skeptics on a completely i can t underscore that enough, a woman twerking in a room. here s the question. is this video too crazy to be true? we have the answer on this very pressing issue this morning. conspiracy. up first, we
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