Kennedy described it best when, addressing 49 Nobel laureates dining at the White House in 1962, he said “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”īut Jefferson rarely dined alone. He was fluent in five languages and read in seven - refusing to read books in anything other than the language in which they were originally penned. A lawyer by his mid-twenties, Jefferson was also a philosopher, an author, a botanist and architect. the founder of the University of Virginia.Īnd that’s the short list.the man who orchestrated the Louisiana Purchase,.
the first secretary of state (a post he discovered he held after reading about it in the paper),.the main author of the Declaration of Independence,.The problem is, there’s so much to say about the man who was: I’m going to have to make a conscious effort not to write too much in this post.
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