Yeah, Dennis Hastert (Speaker of the House, the guy who decides which
legislation reaches the floor for a vote, when, and in what form) quoted a
snippet of it the other day. I'm sure it's been referred to several times.
The whole sad spectacle is too much for me to want to be bathed in.
Did she get it right, that it's a warning rather than an invocation of
paradise on earth?
Mark
At 08:54 AM 6/11/2004, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>Strager still, the Winthrop passage was just read by Supreme Court Justice
>Sandra Day O'Connor (Reagan appointee).
>
>-- Gerald Schwartz
>
> > Hi Mark
> >
> > if Nancy Reagan isn't reading Winthrop's City on the Hill passage at
> > the funeral oration right now
> >
> > spot on contestation
> >
> > I read a passionate statement on the commons and the commonwealth and
> > the responsibility that accompanies such a charged burden
> >
> > love and love
> > cris
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