Archive for January, 2009

NATIONAL AND LOCAL RENEWAL

January 20, 2009

Today, the American story does more than turn a page. It begins more than another chapter. It opens a new volume in which our nation’s vision of itself will be enlarged and ennobled.

Watching television on the warm spring evening last June when Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee for president, I realized that there was only one place to be at that uniquely American moment. And it wasn’t the living room of my Buffalo home.

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