{"id":2841,"date":"2020-03-27T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2020-03-27T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:07:45","slug":"respect-and-admiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/respect-and-admiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Respect and Admiration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Respect and Admiration&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(This is an essay where I found too much to say \u2013 so this is part one<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Night<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched the President\u2019s press briefing last night, and found myself angry and frustrated.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the most basic terms, I feel like the President is willing to let Americans die so he can get the \u201ceconomy\u201d going again.&nbsp;&nbsp;To me, those words are code for his desire to be re-elected, with his popularity tied so 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felt then, and what I think about them now.&nbsp;&nbsp;So for the next two essays, here\u2019s what I think, and what I felt about those men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ike<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in 1956, so Dwight Eisenhower is only a vague memory for me.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was a campaign song that my parents\u2019 friends sang about me running in the 1960 Presidential campaign, \u201c\u2026vote, vote, vote for Martin Dahlman, throw old \u2018Ikey\u2019 down the sink\u2026\u201d I know now, most of those friends were Democrats.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I remember that my Mom didn\u2019t like Eisenhower on a personal level.&nbsp;&nbsp;During World War II she encountered him entering Allied Headquarters in London.&nbsp;&nbsp;She was a \u201cspy\u201d, part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) with the brevet rank of Lieutenant Colonel.&nbsp;&nbsp;SOE had makeshift uniforms at best, considering most of their time was spent undercover in enemy territory, but 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McGovern lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watergate subsumed my junior and senior years of high school.&nbsp;&nbsp;I knew it all, the name of the security guard who found the \u201ctaped\u201d door (Frank Wills) and the lawyer who led the \u201cdirty tricks\u201d campaign (Don Segretti).&nbsp;&nbsp;I wrote Nixon jokes on the chalkboard at school, much to the outrage of my government teacher, Mr. Wagner.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With pride, I served an in-school suspension for my offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nixon was the first President I couldn\u2019t find a way to respect.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was a liar, in public, and we knew it then.&nbsp;&nbsp;He lied \u201cto our face\u201d and expected Americans to believe him.&nbsp;&nbsp;We didn\u2019t, and ultimately the rest of the nation didn\u2019t either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Young Politician<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerald Ford was nowhere near as \u201cdumb\u201d as Nixon made him out to be.&nbsp;&nbsp;He led the nation from \u201cthe long national nightmare,\u201d and while I didn\u2019t agree with his politics, I respected him as a leader.&nbsp;&nbsp;But I worked hard for his opponent, Jimmy Carter in 1976.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was my first taste of professional campaigning, and one hundred hours a week wasn\u2019t enough.&nbsp;&nbsp;I remember walking though Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati on the morning after \u201cwe\u201d won the election, knowing how narrow the outcome was.&nbsp;&nbsp;Carter won Ohio by 10,000 votes; I could take credit for at least some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the utmost respect for Jimmy Carter.&nbsp;&nbsp;He, like Ford, was a standup man, a leader without the narcissistic flaws of either Nixon or Johnson.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was a \u201cgood\u201d man, but he didn\u2019t know how to navigate the pitfalls of Washington politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;That kept him from achieving his goals. He was a moderate Democrat in a party shaped by the radicalism of the anti-Vietnam effort.&nbsp;&nbsp;He got elected, but he didn\u2019t fit in with his own \u201cteam\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honorable Man<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Off the subject, Jimmy Carter has led an incredibly fulfilling life after his Presidency.  And by the way, it really is \u201cJimmy\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s what he told me, a twenty-year old kid working on his campaign when I called him \u201cGovernor Carter.\u201d And as a former (junior) campaign staffer, I stayed connected to the Carter Foundation and all the great work being done.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not just ending childhood blindness in Africa (trachoma), or building homes in poor American neighborhoods (Habitat for Humanity).\u00a0\u00a0President Carter has personally overseen elections throughout the world, helping to bring democracy in places that never had a say before.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stands up for what he believes, even now at ninety-five years old.\u00a0\u00a0While his Presidency got entangled in internal partisan politics, his life after he left the White House is full of even greater achievements.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a man to respect, unlike our current leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>Next essay \u2013 the rest<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respect and Admiration&nbsp; (This is an essay where I found too much to say \u2013 so this is part one) Last Night I watched the President\u2019s press briefing last night, and found myself angry and frustrated.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the most basic terms, I feel like the President is willing to let Americans die so he can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/respect-and-admiration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Respect and Admiration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Respect and Admiration : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The President demands respect and admiration. 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