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At a White House dinner in 1962 honoring the Nobel Award winners of the Western Hemisphere, President John Kennedy greeted them by declaring: "I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I believe this is actually the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human being knowledge, that has have you been gathered jointly at the White House, with the possible exclusion of when Thomas Jefferson dined by themselves." The laureates might have been a trifle nonplussed to hear themselves collectively in comparison to one man, but Thomas Jefferson kept his imprint on his status of Virginia; his young country, america; France, where he offered as ambassador; and the world, where his opposition to tyranny and his advocacy of independence have inspired years to believe the pursuit of delight, as he had written in his Declaration of Self-reliance, is an unalienable right. You will hear about....

• His life, his loves, his legacy
• The kid of Virginia
• Jefferson the patriot
• Jefferson in Paris
• Jefferson the politician
• Jefferson the President
• Jefferson at home

Jefferson himself chosen less opulent reward; the epitaph that he made up for his tombstone accommodated space for the dates of his beginning and loss of life, and listed the following accomplishments: author of the Declaration of Self-reliance and the Statute of Virginia for Faith based Freedom, and dad of the College or university of Virginia. Between Kennedy's description of the third president of america and Jefferson's own rendition of his accomplishments resides the enigma of an American philosopher who ardently believed in independence yet owned or operated slaves; a patriot who offered his country with his skills and energies, but who was simply embroiled in the political machinations which increased to the surface as soon as the first president was at office; a individual who doubted the intellectual equality of African-Americans yet was involved in a 38-12 months affair with a much youthful female slave, with whom he fathered six children; a brilliant innovator who lived his life in debt; a man familiar with the finer things that life can offer who espoused the simple, agrarian model for the new country he helped to found.