I can't recall anything at this moment about Jefferson, but Mark Twain says
much
about Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Go to Barbara Schmidt's WWW.
Twainquotes.com for both, but also check Twain's essay, "The Late Benjamin
Franklin," and his "A New Biography of Washington," "General Washington's
Negro
body-Servant," "A Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington," and "A
Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood." He seems to be especially
irked
by Washington's truth-telling and the influence of Franklin on later
generations and
Franklin's entering Philadelphia with three loaves of bread (he says that he
could
have done that).

John H. Davis, Ph.D.
Chowan College
Murfreesboro, NC