Today is Thomas Jefferson's birthday, so we're sharing one of our favorite moments of Nixon talking about Jefferson: “From among his many achievements Thomas Jefferson toward the close of his life personally selected two he wanted most to be remembered by. He did not select his service as George Washington’s Secretary of State — not the monumental fact that he had doubled our nation’s area with the Louisiana Purchase — not even that he had served as the third President of the United States. No, he wanted to be remembered as the author of the Declaration of Independence and founder of the University of Virginia. Jefferson knew that the destiny of America was inseparable from education — that in fulfillment of the promise of this new nation education would be the key.” Source: CBS Radio Network, Sunday, October 20, 1968