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Roundup

12-23-06

Clement Moore was anti-Jefferson pamphleteer [5min]

Before he gave us the modern notion of Santa Claus in his poem "A Visit from St. Nicklaus," Clement Moore was a bit of an attack-ad specialist. He wrote an 1804 pamphlet calling President Thomas Jefferson a racist. "Weekend Edition" literary sleuth Paul Collins tells Scott Simon more about Moore.

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