Tuesday, March 31, 2009

JFK on TJ

On 29 April 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a White House dinner honouring Nobel Prize winners. In his remarks, he mentioned that great polymathic genius, Thomas Jefferson:

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

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