Reflections on Democracy: Lessons from the White House, 1964 and 2025

I had decided to let this thing go, this WordPress subscription. I stopped it but I was informed by the WordPress powers (that’s their spelling with the capital P in the miDDle) that I had recently paid for a year and I could post until my renewal date but no longer if I didn’t renew. So I left it to fallow and let the old posts rot in the field thinking that I would never post again.

I’m not sure what pushed me over the edge and led me to reach out again last night but maybe it was the criminal destruction of the East Wing of the White House. I have always felt myself to be a part owner of the White House with a bit of personal interest in its preservation as a public historical asset.

I went there once in 1964 as a college student invited by President Lyndon Johnson who, working from a mailing list, asked Dr. Phillip Hoffman of the University of Houston to identify and sponsor a student leader to come to a special White House student leaders meeting.

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Author: Lake Jackson Citizen

I volunteer as a photographer for our local community theater. I have opinions about politics and believe it should be every American's duty to become informed and participate in the discussion of issues. I began this blog to be able to stay in touch in ways I used to on Facebook. I deleted that account recently and hope to be able to share photographs and information relating to cultural and political events in our community. I am retired after a career in social work and post-secondary​ education.

4 thoughts on “Reflections on Democracy: Lessons from the White House, 1964 and 2025”

  1. It was a joy to find your blog – since it mentions Jacinto City UMC where my dad (C. H. Stutes) served as pastor from 1965 to 1967. (I was in 5th, 6th, and part of 7th grade there – attending Pyburn Elementary and Woodland Acres JH.). Appreciate your thoughts and I know my dad would as well. We moved to JC from a very small town and church so it seemed like a huge church to me at the time! I would become a pastor too, and would serve in Texas from 1981 to 2013, at which time we relocated to Roanoke VA. I am semi-retired but still serving as a part-time associate pastor of a UNITED Methodist Church here. Blessings…keep writing! We probably knew some of the same people even thought we were only in JC for a relatively short while!

    Robert Stutes

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    1. Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Robert. I just now saw your note and it is a little past my bedtime. I will try to send you a proper reply later. I hope tomorrow but, as you know, Sundays are pretty busy days.

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    1. Thank you for hanging in there with my rant. I try not to do that too often, but the banditos y banditas in the White House really don’t mind it. They are impervious to online commentary by libdems. But it is important to declare one’s position. I don’t want my grandchildren to ever wonder whose side I was on.

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