At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.
The last two years of the pandemic in particular have shown like a magnifying glass the importance of trust in politics and science, as well as in social discourse, but also the fragility of trust.
Folks that watched it on television thought Kennedy won because Nixon was sweating and Kennedy was looking debonair and so it's sort of like, defined how powerful television was for presidential politics going forward.
Isn’t that part of what makes politics so dispiriting? How can elected officials rage about deficits when we propose to spend money on preschool for kids, but not when we’re cutting taxes for corporations?
But in America he leaves behind a country much changed since he controlled the levers of power, a country divided in ways that would have been anathema to his brand of politics.