*How did **Jefferson know?*** *John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the** **brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of** **the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."***
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