Showing posts with label democratic institutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democratic institutions. Show all posts

Sunday, December 2, 2018

The memoir I wish George H.W. Bush had written; The Washington Post, December 1, 2018

Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post; The memoir I wish George H.W. Bush had written

"So many of the things Bush said and wrote may seem quaint, but today they are also vital and increasingly fragile. “It is not fashionable in these days of tearing down our institutions to say ‘trust me,’ ” he said in a 1976 speech as CIA director. “Yet Americans have to have faith and trust in some degree or none of our governmental systems will work."