To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When challenged to name an influential president, most Americans gravitate to those four granite heads on Mount Rushmore. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt, after all, were undeniably key difference-makers in our nation’s history. But it’s likely that the president who will most influence your speech today will be America’s eighth… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Harry Truman was an “accidental” president of the United States. Plucked from obscurity to be Franklin D. Roosevelt’s running mate in 1944, no one realistically imagined he would ever sit in the Oval Office. But the little-known Missouri politician became America’s 33rd chief executive when FDR suddenly died the following April…. Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Jimmy Carter, whose life will be celebrated today at his funeral at the National Cathedral, has always been an anomaly among U.S. presidents. His one term in the Oval Office (1977-1981) ended in apparent disgrace. Voters, weary of stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis, rewarded his opponent Ronald Reagan with a… Read more »
