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Nancy of Mesquite Country
Join us twice a month to read the witty and timely commentary from our Slightly Creaky Active Living columnist, Nancy Dickerson.
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Nancy of Mesquite Country:
July 25, 2010
With All Due Respect
Even when President Nixon resigned, I felt respectful of him and the office he was leaving. He had made some mistakes, and those mistakes became painfully public. It occurred to me at the time that other presidents had probably made—and would make—mistakes. The main difference seemed to be that those mistakes were a matter now of public knowledge and reaction.
What a difference 20 or 30 years have made! Our heroes have become sports, acting, modeling, or performing ‘artists’ or ‘stars.’ How pitiful. At one time our nation could hold up an Audie Murphy or Ronald Reagan or even a John Wayne as a representative of the American way of life and heroics. A president who had his boat blown out from under him in a war, a congressman who served in Vietnam, and a Supreme Court justice who could ride the Arizona ranges on her own land—we could know these as American heroes and knew that however imperfect they were, we need not be ashamed of them.
Generations of Americans taught their children to use respectful terms of address for anyone they met—but especially for those who were considered elders or those who were authority figures such as nurses, doctors, and yes, especially politicians. That is not to say that elders or authority figures were considered ‘perfect’ or without faults. But at one time in our national history, the imperfections lacked the impact on and therefore the focus of the nation. During those halcyon days, representatives were still considered servants of the national interests rather than prisoners of their own greed or aggrandizement.
A young politician recently announced that he would no longer serve in public office here in Texas. The man gave family obligations as his reason for leaving the political arena. But could it also be that like the rest of us, he smells the stench that seems to permeate national politics? When it becomes public knowledge that a congressman or congresswoman has put himself or herself above the laws of the nation, how can that person be allowed to continue in an office that represents others who have to obey those laws? Who do criminals represent?
With all due respect for the offices and the positions of authority developed by our founding fathers and sanctioned under Judeo-Christian beliefs, how has our government come to so blatantly not represent ethical and real values?
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