Take that Desantis

[KS Toronado]

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.” from speech at Dartmouth College in 1953. From Snopes: The Republican president spoke these words during a commencement address at Dartmouth College on June 14, 1953, in the first year of his presidency

[calimary]

1. The last Republican who was respectable.

I was too young - he didn't make much of an impression on me. First became more aware of Presidents during JFK - but I think it was more about his chic and alluring wife and their darling kids - who were a little bit younger than me. It was a First Family I could personally relate to. The first First Family to leave that impression with me. Eisenhower was just another grandpa-type, for all I knew.

[beveeheart]

2. Mamie Dowd Eisenhower Library - my local library

. My local library is named after Mamie because she's from this area. She and Ike even contributed financially to it. And I'm doing my best to read every book, currently participating in 2 book clubs.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R,

[Timeflyer]

4. Loved the quote until...

the comment about "decency." Guess that had to be added in 1953. Now DeSadist would twist its meaning to be anything he decides is "woke." But yeah, good quote.