Having worked for Bobby
Kennedy’s campaign, including being in California when he was assassinated,
grief clouded my mission.
I was at the funeral and
wakes in Washington dominated by his campaign staff.
I overheard them talking
about how they probably were going to offer their services to Hubert Humphrey.
So a 21-year-old was angry
telling his former bosses that there was no way he could work for anyone
associated with President Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.
I didn’t vote. I doubt I was
alone. Richard Nixon became president.
It is hard to describe how
evil Nixon was, and how much harm he caused. But he didn’t get us in a nuclear
war or destroy our economy.
Who knows what Donald Trump
would do. On Thursday morning, shortly after an Egyptair Airbus disappeared off
radar between Paris and Cairo, Trump tweeted that it was an act of terrorism.
No wreckage had been found.
No terrorist group claimed responsibility. There wasn’t even cheering on a
radio station operated by terrorists.
Trump tweeted Thursday
morning, according to CNN: "Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane
departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and
sickness!"
Incidents have occurred
throughout the history of the U.S. that could have led to war but careful
presidents have avoided spilling more American blood.
President Lyndon Johnson used
a phony incident off the coast of Vietnam, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, to send
more than 50,000 soldiers to their deaths in a war we lost. There is no
indication that it was necessary and cannot be shown to have contributed to our
victory in the Cold War.
It may have been a domino, but
it was not on the same board.
Perhaps even scarier, in
regard to the possibility of a Trump presidency, is his friendship with
President Vladimir Putin even as Russians have buzzed dangerously close to U.S.
Navy ships and air force jets.
Trump admires a man whose
nation was caught cheating in the Olympics and has stolen land from the
Ukraine.
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