"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"-Army Counsel Joseph Welch addressing Sen. Joseph McCarthy
at McCarthy’s infamous "Red Baiting" Senate hearings of the 1950’s
"Words mean things."- Rush Limbaugh
I was 16 in November, 1960 when my father took me to see President Eisenhower dedicate the then new bridge from Red Wing, Minnesota to Wisconsin . It was the time of my first exposure to a President of the United States and it made an impression of momentousness that has stayed with me. It was also my first exposure to a personal sense of respect for a President. Those were times when a President commanded not just respect for the office, but personal respect and, of course for Eisenhower, a genuine war hero, it was a given akin to reverence.
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