Thursday Nov 6th 2008
A personal reflection on history
The heady mist of Tuesday night has now faded as the reality of governing begins. One entry can’t possibly touch on all that is noteworthy about this election. I have many observations and thoughts about these past few weeks and this result, and over the next few days I will share them, but first, something personal.
My first political memories are all tragic. I can still remember the sudden crying filling the restaurant my parents and I were in on the 22nd of November 1963, the anti civil rights protests in the streets of my hometown when Lyndon Johnson arrived to be nominated for the Presidency, watching on tv as Bobby Kennedy lay spreadeagled on a hotel kitchen floor, the election of Richard Nixon – twice – and then the murder of Martin Luther King.
Albert | 10:30am |
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