Like most of you, I get e-mails from my dad full of “facts” that are basically telling me how much better life was in the past than it is now. People were more respectful, politicians were more honest ...
WASHINGTON — One evening near Christmas in 1955, Harry Truman walked into his Independence, Mo., home to find Bess tossing stacks of old letters into the blazing hearth. He looked stricken. A ...