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America 250 would have Founding Fathers spinning in their graves | Letter

To commemorate America’s bicentennial, the poet and playwright Archibald MacLeish wrote a radio play called “The Great American Fourth of July Parade.” It is an imagined conversation between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in which the men comment, from their graves, on post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America.  When talking about their different interpretations of Jefferson’s phrase “all men […]

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Where’s Abe Lincoln when you need him? | Letter

Oh, for the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln. His wisdom is timeless. I am currently reading about former President Thomas Jefferson, and have recently come across these words of Lincoln. Words that I judge are so full of wisdom and grace for today. “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution […]