Reply #10: Jimmy Carter's speech, taking responsibility for the helicopters crashing

[gauguin57]

in the desert while U.S. troops were trying to rescue the hostages in Iran. A president taking RESPONSIBILITY for something! What a CONCEPT!


This from Lincoln's Second Inaugural speech is OK, too ...

"... With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

And John Adams (before he was president): "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

And, of course, I agree the "ask not what your country can do for you" was absolutely marvelous political rhetoric.