I used to be to learn that in his farewell deal with Joe Biden appeared to echo the 1961 farewell deal with of Dwight Eisenhower, when Biden warned of an oligarchy “taking shape” (Biden’s farewell speech sparks predictable {split} alongside occasion strains, 16 January); in 1961 Eisenhower went on to warn of a “military-industrial complex” and the overreach of American company energy as a risk to democracy. Nicely, everyone knows how a lot affect that warning had.
However Ike additionally stated this: “We – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow.” Not dangerous for 1961, and from a Republican at that. However sadly, whereas this piece of recommendation may need struck a chord with a younger Jimmy Carter, it didn’t actually catch on, did it?
Frank Keightley
Previous, Northamptonshire
It was saddening to look at the crowds of Trump followers gathered on the inauguration joyfully proclaiming that their president would make America nice once more.
Not certainly one of these unthinking individuals stopped to think about when America ceased to be nice. Consider the Hollywood movies, the jazz, the nice writers akin to Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the area know-how, the world-class medical analysis and the illustrious universities. These are a couple of of the issues that make America nice, not some bigoted vulgarian taking part in to the ignorance of his supporters.
Jules Stewart
London
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