LETTER TO MRS. VIOLET PIKLER FROM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003700020057-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: July 6, 1960
• Content Type: LETTER

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Prophet of Popular Sovereignty
as Jefferson, whose bust is framed by the Jefferson-designed colonnade
-University of Virginia, wrote the Declaration of [ndependence and pro-
the nation with a democratic creed. Trusting the fitness of common men
-ern themselves, he founded a new political party (first called Repub-
and later Democrats), which carried him into the Presidency in 1800.
National Pride with 'Old 1 r nyides'
With the War of 1812 America graduated in-o self cor! - is nationhood,
til then it had been little more than a shaky conieac? t on of mutually
ous states. But the victories at New Orleans and Lk-. ie and the explo
the frigate ON Ironsides (right)-now prescived . a i.;tional monume
Boston-stirred national pride and created.i grove ina : e isv of national i
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 Foundation Stone of the Nation
.mmon goal of America at the time of the Revolution was clear: inde- for a new-born nation in search of an identity. iii quen(t 4 E s net Washing-
nce. Its hopes centered in. one man. George Washington, whose bust ton's forte, nor was political philosophizing. But a] ter th, i I q 7 constitutional
) was photographed beside a Revolutionary cannon at Valley Forge, convention over which he presided, Washington iorcef fli gummed up his
lied Father of His Country as early as 1779, while the fighting was still and the nation's mission: "to preserve the Union, estab h4 u loci order and
an. His integrity and austere dignity made him a foundation stone government, and to render the nation happy at hot ,e anci f sreAed abroad."
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