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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | November 30, 1998 issue

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On the cusp of the November elections, Sean Wilentz resurfaced and sponsored a quickie historians' petition, rallying the profession to the side of U.S. President Bill Clinton. President Bill Clinton also has a vested interest in this revelation. He launched his first-term inaugural parade at Monticello and hosted at the White House a special screening of the Ken Burns documentary on Thomas Jefferson. Here is Joseph Ellis, author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. Until the high priests of DNA convinced him, he could look at all the living evidence of a slaveholder's carnality and pretend that he was confronted with a puzzle.

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CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; PRESIDENTS -- United States; ELECTIONS; PETITIONS; UNITED States -- Politics & government; UNITED States
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