Provide RFKJ with Secret Service protection
Pettiness is not new in American politics. It has seemed turbo charged in recent years. Standards of conduct are lower. More people in politics seem to equate gratuitous nastiness with strength. Challenges to the re-nomination of presidents, much like divorces, seem to make particularly bitter antagonists out of otherwise civilized people. Easygoing Gerald Ford never forgave Ronald Reagan for challenging him. Ford vanquished Reagan, and reconciled with the man who actually ousted him from office in 1976, Jimmy Carter, to […]
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