Fifty-six years ago, when John F. Kennedy was elected as our 35th president of the United States, Democrats retained total control of both houses of Congress.
What Donald Trump did in his RNC acceptance speech was to raise the stakes of the election and define it in his own terms: Law and order, crime in the streets, and terror.
At the RNC, Donald Trump, a guy who calls Manhattan and Palm Beach home, sounded an awful lot like a bridge-and-tunnel guy in touch with working-class concerns.
In 1926, speaking about the Declaration of Independence on its 150th anniversary, President Calvin Coolidge noted the unique philosophy behind the creation of the United States: “We cannot continue to enjoy the result, if we neglect and abandon the cause.”
The two men had not just been friends, but very close friends. They had held each other in the highest regard, finished each other’s sentences, admired each other in the truest and deepest of friendships.