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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Originally Posted by waste gate
Of course presidents have acted based on their opinion. To believe otherwise is to remove what is the human experience from every chief executive before George Bush and intellectualy dishonest.
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Have a look at the link again. Mr. Oren specifically talks about the Jefferson presidency and his response.
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President Jefferson -- so often mislabeled as an idealist, pacifist and isolationist -- eagerly launched the war and ordered the permanent stationing of U.S. naval forces thousands of miles from the nation's shores.
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