Thank you, Brent.  I agree that taking sides about current politics is 
best suited for discussion in another forum - NOT this one!

Mitch Lichtenberg
Charleston, SC (the home of nullification!)

Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
> It is very interesting, isn't it, how often current events reflect the
> past, or people reach back into the past for precedents and support. It
> is also somewhat slippery, sometimes, because changed times and
> different issues in politics may not be so precisely parallel that
> adapting a past policy to a present problem will work. I have heard
> people preface a reference to the past with the phrase, "All things
> being equal," when, in fact, all things can never be equal or the same.
>  
> I have never believed it true that history repeats itself, although we
> can certainly learn useful things from history, and am more inclined to
> agree with a statement that I once read but forget who wrote, that
> history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
>  
> Still, this is an interesting subject, both concerning the Kentucky and
> Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and also about the usable or abusable past.
> Let's please keep focused on those aspects of Virginia history and of
> historical relevancy and not get tot aking sides on current political
> controversies as we have a tendency to do.
>  
> Brent Tarter
> The Library of Virginia
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