In this regard, he might well listen to another American president whose name he hasn't invoked: Great social innovation, Thomas Jefferson wrote, shouldn't rest on slender majorities.

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She probably won't have to deal with Congressman Bill Jefferson of New Orleans.

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Charmaine Jefferson, the executive director, won't say whether the institution has approached the company to acquire the collection.

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