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"As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurian. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. -Thomas Jefferson, letter dated October 31, 1819 to my great, great, great, great, great, great uncle, William Short, who was his French Ambassador, and who was his personal assistant before and after that. Genetics, therefore, are probably responsible for my desire, since 1962, to be U.S. Ambassador to Turkey! Copyright 2008