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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Father Terrence who wrote (16217)	1/22/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Sorry Terrence, Rasputin and Jefferson each had their flaws, one more pronounced than the other.. and serving very different interests. Jefferson had to deal dishonestly and with deception to attempt to free Americans held by Algerian pirates.. he also didn't trust the word to leak out that rescue was on its way. ""I had taken measures to have it believed at Algiers that our government withdrew its attention from our captives there. This was to prepare their captors for the ransoming them at a reasonable price... Were the views of the government communicated to [our captives], they could not keep their own secret, and such a price would be demanded for them as Congress, probably, would think ought not to be given, lest it should be the cause of involving thousands of others of their citizens in the same condition." --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1788.

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