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I think it was the March, 1801 day when John Adams climbed into a carriage and peacefully headed back to Boston the morning that Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office as the new president. This was the first true affirmation of the American experiment, the first hard test of the viability of the new Constitution.
Unlike the Washington to Adams change, this was the opposition coming into power, this was a political group that promised to undo much of what the Federalists had done and considered critical. This was the party in power surrendering without protest, to a replacement party ...and all because it was the expressed wish of the majority of the people.
This had never happened before and there was never a guarantee that when the time came for such a thing, the folks in power would accept it. That they did was what makes it possible to say that government .."of the people, by the people, for the people" wasn't just a hollow idea, wasn't just a theory on paper, wasn't just lip service.
...it is hard to take , hard to understand, but when the opposition gets in.......it is a good day......because someone has to stand up and start changing things......THE SHIP OF STATE IS A SAILING VESSEL, AND IT MUST TACT LEFT AND RIGHT.
Each of the past ten presidents (and now the 11th) could have, with the stroke of a pen, done something that would mave made it one of the greatest days in American history, and none did. They could have normalized relations with Cuba.
Cuba will free her self and we will help , communications will do it, but there are those in USSR that wish for the old way.............Just like Here in the USA
I'm going to suggest a day that I don't think has been mentioned yet: the day the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. We regained our wayward territory and our country became stronger for the re-unification!
I did mention that day (see my post dated 2/5/09).
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Originally Posted by bobsmith
I'm going to suggest a day that I don't think has been mentioned yet: the day the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. We regained our wayward territory and our country became stronger for the re-unification!
This thread should go on forever because there are so many "What was the best day..." As history is being made right now, this very moment! Memory brings me to a favorite that came straight to mind, The Birthday of the US Marine Corps. Nov. 10, 1775.
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