The United States of America has consistently proven since its founding 249 years ago that it is, if nothing else, a resilient nation capable of ultimately persevering despite an uncanny capacity for tripping over its own feet. As Churchill famously said, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”

The nation has survived a Civil War and a Depression that led a multitude to seek a governmental overthrow. I was around for a particularly disturbing period, 1968, when two of the era’s leading lights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated, protests raged over the Vietnam War, a police riot tore at the fabric of the city of Chicago, civil unrest was widespread leading to riots in the streets of cit

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