
Becoming America
You're Dead to Me
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Jefferson Dressed Down, but Some of the Politicians Are Dressing Up
In the 70 nineties, the federalists were in power and had a view of what the united states should be that was more akin to what they'd known before. Jefferson is much more comfortable with democratic politicing. And when he becomes president, he decides he's going to show his politics with his style. So ye, he wears run down clothing for his presidential inauguration. He walks to his inauguration rather than taking a carriage in. At the end of it, goes back to his boarding house to hang out with whoever was at the boarding house. O, he's making these statements that are like umdrus the guy, i'm one of the people. I'm like you in
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