DECEMBER 7, 1941 At Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Imperial Japan awakened America. At that moment, the great republic began its inexorable march toward to genuine exceptionalism. Consequently, America Ascendant, the Rise of American Exceptionalism, documents the events of that fateful morning on Oahu that shaped the rest of …
AMERICANS ASCENDANT JUNE 6, 1944 D-Day had arrived. Following a furious naval bombardment by the largest fleet ever assembled and supported by air forces with complete control of the sky, our fathers and grandfathers stormed the beaches of Normandy at 6:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944. Meanwhile, highly trained Rangers …
THE EXCEPTIONAL AMERICAN “I Like Ike” was the successful 1952 presidential campaign slogan for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the World War II Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and Cold War commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. On September 17, 2020, the United States of America honored the exceptional American …
APRIL 12, 1945 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on April 12, 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was seated in the living room of the Little White House at his beloved Warm Springs, Georgia therapeutic spa. Three days earlier, Lucy Mercer Rutherford arrived from Aitken, South Carolina, accompanied by portrait artist …
FROM FDR TO TODAY All Americans mourned the passing of the extraordinary and brilliant Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg of the Supreme Court of the United States. Moreover, related developments about packing the Supreme Court remind us of its purpose, importance, and composition. Likewise, as our Constitutional system of checks, …
THEN AND NOW America First was a provocative movement in 1940 and it remains controversial eighty years later. America First as advocated in 1940 was incompatible with genuine American exceptionalism. Likewise, the 2020 version of America First is often confused with the original movement. But it is different. Therefore, let …
NATION OVER PARTY STATESMANSHIP Unlike Wendell Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, many modern politicians and media appear institutionally incapable of objective reasoning. However, Willkie’s story proves that there was a time when bipartisan statesmanship was possible in Washington. Furthermore, we misunderstand the isolationist opposition to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s …
AMERICA GOES NUCLEAR At 5:29 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon, an atomic device code named Trinity, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about thirty-five miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on the Army Air Forces’ Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery …
DEFEATING THE INVISIBLE ENEMY PANDEMIC CHALLENGES COVID-19 is certainly not America’s original invisible enemy. The deadly 1918-20 Spanish Flu pandemic certainly comes to mind. The nation that defeated infantile paralysis in the 1950s (and other childhood afflictions) will conquer our current challenge. Although an American president must rely upon medical …