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| | AHA Information: Andrew Dickson White's Second Presidential Address (1885) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | He showed the reasons for supposing that the “federalism” for which the Girondists were sent to the guillotine was largely due to Jefferson, but disproved the old charge that Jefferson held friendly relations with Robespierre and the extreme anarchists. |
 | | White also traced out the influence of French officers and soldiers who had served in America, also of French travellers in America at that period, concluding with a summary of the American influences in giving French ideas of liberty—in the first place, development, and, after that, practical direction toward a moderate republic. |
 | | Andrew D. White (Nov. 7, 1832 to Nov. 4, 1918) taught for a number of years at the University of Michigan, later serving as the first president of Cornell University. |
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