“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent, and all the more valuable for having been tested in adversity.”
~President Jimmy Carter, 1978.
Image: White House Historical Association.
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
~U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings on this day 72 years ago: Jun. 9, 1954.
Image: U.S. Senate Historical Office.
"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it."
~Victoria Woodhull, 1872-when, as candidate of the Equal Rights Party, she became the first woman to run for President of the United States.
Woodhull died on this day 99 yrs ago-6/9/1927.
Image: Smithsonian.
Hattie McDaniel was born on this day in 1893. She won 1940 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of "Mammy" in "Gone with the Wind." She was the first Black performer to win an Academy Award. The ceremony at which she won her Oscar was strictly segregated.
Image: Public domain.
Constitution and the laws... Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. "
~James A. Garfield, letter accepting Republican presidential nomination, 1880.
Image: Library of Congress.
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"But it is certain that the wounds of the war cannot be completely healed, and the spirit of brotherhood cannot fully pervade the whole country, until every citizen, rich or poor, white or black, is secure in the free and equal enjoyment of every civil and equal right guaranteed by the
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"Dear Wife: If the result meets your approval I shall be content. Love to all the household."
~James A. Garfield's telegram to his wife, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, on Jun. 8, 1880, just moments after he received the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
Image: National Portrait Gallery.
On this day in 1880, Republicans nominated James A. Garfield as their presidential candidate.
Want to know more about this campaign & election? Read my book, “The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880” (@univpressofkansas.bsky.social, 2020).
Images: LOC; Univ. Press of Kansas.
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“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”
~Henry Miller, “The Colossus of Maroussi,” 1941.
Miller (b. Dec. 26, 1891) died on this day 46 years ago: Jun. 7, 1980.
Image: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images.
