 | Albert Gallatin - Currency question - 1879 - 1194 pages
...lawyers. Affectionate salutations. JEFFERSON TO GALLATIN. January 13, 1807. Th. J. to Mr. Gallatin. The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation...as on an AttorneyGeneral. Affectionate salutations. GALLATIN TO JEFFERSON. NOTES.— ME8SAGE RESPECTING GUNBOATS. [8th February, 1807.] Second paragraph.... | |
 | John Austin Stevens - 1883 - 444 pages
...the change proposed. In these days of woman's rights it is curious to read " Th. J. to Mr. Gallatin. The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I." Gallatin suggested a weekly general conference of the President and the Secretaries at what is now... | |
 | John Austin Stevens - Statesmen - 1883 - 462 pages
...the change proposed. In these days of woman's rights it is curious to read " Th. J. to Mr. Gallatin. The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I." Gallatin suggested a weekly general conference of the President and the Secretaries at what is now... | |
 | John Austin Stevens - Diplomats - 1883 - 442 pages
...the change proposed. In these days of woman's rights it is curious to read " Th. J. to Mr. Gallatin. The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I." Gallatin suggested a weekly general conference of the President and the Secretaries at what is now... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...restorative cordial. 76. I never yet saw a native American begging in the streets or highways. 77The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I. 78 I hope and firmly believe that the whole world will sooner or later feel benefit from the issue... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 458 pages
...of the Treasury nominated one, but was stopped by a little note which read : " TJ to Mr. Gallatin : The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared nor am I." He was opposed to a candidate for office expending money to aid in his election, and in the Constitution... | |
 | Edward Channing - United States - 1917 - 600 pages
...distribution should be borne in mind, but, so he wrote a little later, the appointment of a woman was "an innovation for which the public is not prepared; nor am I." Leonidas (New York, 1801), Appen- 216 nominations to the Senate. Senate dix. Executive Journal, i,... | |
 | University of Maine at Orono - Maine - 1924 - 596 pages
...constituent requested him to have a woman appointed postmaster of a small town. Jefferson replied : The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared; nor am I." If this conservatism is surprising in the liberal Jefferson, that of Benjamin Franklin is still more... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1968 - 764 pages
...the tradition established by the first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, who said as President, "The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I." Secretary Rusk added: "Today the public is prepared — and so am I. But may I say, even more importantly,... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - Presidents - 1965 - 952 pages
...formidable opposition. At that time, no less a person than Thomas Jefferson was saying, and I quote: "The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not yet prepared." Today we can safely say that attitudes have changed among the public, and I believe... | |
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The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared. 
