Bush’s farewell includes a nod to forward-thinking Jefferson
January 16, 2009
Posted in: Jefferson Today
The sole quotation cited in President Bush’s 13-minute final address to the nation last night was from Thomas Jefferson’s 1816 letter to John Adams in which he wrote, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
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