THE PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES TO THE NATION: Inaugurals, State of the Unions, Farewell Addresses Vol 2

This “book of books” is the definitive recorded authority on policy, political science, public administration, history, government, culture, and the United States of America as a whole, etc. Imagine, being “We The People” and the “world” as seen through the eyes of the country’s 46 plus Chief Executive Officers. This volume contains the good, the bad, and the ugly of the “greatest” cultural experiment, democracy, diplomacy, information source, military, economy-DIME, and Nation the world has ever known. These seven volumes of “THE PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGES TO THE NATION”…Inaugurals, State of the Unions, and Farewell Addresses should be required high school, college, and professional military education (PME) reading. From 1776 until the present, this man-made miracle, America, of self-representative government and blended cultural way of life has endured major perturbations from without and from within. And yet, it is still the “bright, shinning house on the hill”: the beacon of hope for all to see, admire, and aspire…from sea to shinning sea. America the beautiful!!! When historians write history in the face of unverifiable facts of memory and behavior, because the principals have since departed…there is a tendency to “presume” things to be true. This presumption tends to be based upon the, perfectly human, “deduction” of the past, present, related, and prevailing conditions. Sometimes documented, second person, history must be taken with a grain of salt. The rule, in this case, that should apply is: In God we trust, “all others” we verify. The words of these men presented here, first person, will tell you “what” happened, or why “that” happened from their perspectives and the decisions they made under intense “pressure”. There are no small or easy matters in national and world politics. The negative consequences can be dire…when the lives, dreams, hopes, and desires of over 7 billion humans and “other” earth inhabitants are at stake. Moreover, when a President of the United States Of America delivers a speech, especially before Congress, he or she is espousing “their” recorded “policy” position for America and the world to know…and act accordingly. These policies are pretty well thought-out and vetted, and the risk of execution is fairly well accepted beforehand. However, if things do not go as expected…there will be enough blame to go around for the offending advisors, strategists, and other external people/conditions. When man plans, God smiles!!! As you read the “deliberate” words of these men, try to put yourself in the shoes of these “mere mortal” figures. Think about what these men saw, what they heard, what they might have felt, the discussions they had with others, the push and pull of millions of “We The People”, and foreigners they endured. Also, what scrutiny they put their family, friends, and themselves through leading this Nation to some place. Parse and analyze their words, define them, ponder them, and then place them in their proper context. The enclosed, first person, historical documents contain a cornucopia of “National” and “World” knowledge and experience. Place yourself in the turmoil of presidential, political life, if you dare to imagine. What is your assessment of the thinking, decisions, and behavior of each man? What is your assessment of the direction that each directed the Nation, and the collective…We The People…direction of the American journey and destiny? What would you have done, if you were in the “driver’s seat” routinely, and at a historical moment? In his January 4, 1965 State of the Union Address to the Nation, President Lyndon Johnson had this to say: “Why did men come to that once forbidding land? Well, they were restless, of course, and they had to be moving on. But there was more than that. —- ISBN: 9798758289617