Reelected House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana says in his acceptance speech after a 218 vote victory that he would conclude by reciting Thomas Jefferson's prayer for the nation, which asks for ...
The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...
newly reelected House Speaker Mike Johnson recited a prayer he attributed to Thomas Jefferson, saying the third president prayed it every day. Johnson had hardly finished his speech when the ...
The Thomas Jefferson statue at Hofstra University ... indeed, the same free speech that Jefferson himself championed? It is true that Jefferson was a slave owner for much of his life.
There is no proof Jefferson ever said it, according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which has a page on its website dedicated to correcting this notion, a Voice of America reporter noted on X.
Current threats and legal actions by Mr. Trump and too many Republican leaders do not support the “traditions of a free press”; they seem in direct conflict with the lofty words of the First ...