We ought to get that tax bell out of the committee and that civil rights bill passed through the house. And we ought to get started in the senate. And we ought to just have a minimum of time. Lyndon johnson really captured it very well. The promise of the first year which is youre elected and you have a mandate working with the congress. You the president , the executive branch. But as Lyndon Johnson said when he became president , no matter how big your majorities you get one year before they the congress stops thinking about you, the president , and starts thinking about themselves, their own reelection. And at about january of your second year, after youve done your first year, all the members of congress are thinking about their midterm elections. And theyre really cautious about taking any risk to help you get your mandate and your agenda through. Which is why president s early on in their administration are so eager to get things done. Because they feel this is the moment theyll
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Its a term that got thrown around a lot today called an academic call village if you look at his plan for the university, at the time a lot of universities king thed of one very big building where class were held and dormitory rooms things like that and jeffersons idea was to essentially make a village out of it with the students living near the the professors and classes being given in the professors homes and you know so there was all of this constant interaction of students and faculty. Plus it is in charlottesville in the 1820s which is very small town of a village really and so if you think about these amazing buildings that went up in early 1820s in essentially in nowhere in virginia, you know, it was part of his ideal of, you know, the United States is in a gray society, and the elite becoming leaders of the country, and all of that sort of thing. Well the University Archives are the official Historical Records of the university, and they go back to actually long before the univ