Way to change your mind at the last minute, Biden. States now have two weeks to establish their own celebrations of independence....
"unanimously pressed on myself alone to undertake the draught [sic]. I consented; I drew it; but before I reported it to the committee I communicated it separately to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams requesting their corrections. . . I then wrote a fair copy, reported it to the committee, and from them, unaltered to the Congress."
Enjoy this video President Ronald Reagan's 1983 Independence Day address to the nation.
Beware a mindset that knows no boundaries of that sort...
“American exceptionalism” would not become the whipping-bench of the professoriate until the last decades of the twentieth century, yet Americans from the first Independence Day onward, without the term in their lexicon, had a sense, somewhat mystical, but nonetheless deeply ingrained, of what might be called an orthodoxy, that their system of government exemplified by design a standard of moral rectitude that would not only bring peace and prosperity to themselves but serve as a liberating beacon light for oppressed people around the world....
There was an interesting point made by someone responding to the tweet. How much longer will it be before students cannot read cursive?
