sleep.” Thus, if it should turn out that Jefferson did carry out an in-chamber, thirty-eight-year relationship with Sally Hemings, then there would be nothing more to say than he was a liar (he expressly denied any wrongdoing other than making a pass at Betsy Walker in his 1805 letter to Robert Smith13), an uncaring father (he would have placed his libidinal outlet ahead of concern for his family), and a hypocrite (he would not have lived up to the ideals he embraced)—that is, Jefferson, by his own canons of morally upright activity, would be a moral reprobate.
