{"id":17425,"date":"2016-09-01T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:35:43","slug":"3-priorities-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17425","title":{"rendered":"3 PRIORITIES DOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three of my priorities are done now. <\/p>\n<p>The first was simply putting yesterday&#8217;s post in the blog. <\/p>\n<p>A second was catching up on my January resolve to read at least a page of the Bible a day. I&#8217;d brought the NIV with me last week with my Grandsons but just never had the strength to read nightly while traveling. I fell about ten pages behind but just made that up. Trust me, Psalm 119 was an uphill slog at 2,345 words. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/jywang\/www\/cef\/Bible\/NIV\/NIV_Bible\/PS+119.html\">here on the Internet<\/a> and this site explains that the first words in each line forms an acrostic at least in the original Hebrew. Ugh!<\/p>\n<p>The third was finishing one of the several books I&#8217;ve started this year but got hung up on. This one was <strong>Dark Horse<\/strong> about Wendell Willkie who was probably the fellow who ignited my Dad&#8217;s passion for politics when he was 15.  The similarities between 1940 and this year are striking with a Republican presidential candidate that horrified party regulars and who barely qualified as an elephant &#8211; the chief difference being that Willkie was a genuinely articulate, honest and attractive candidate compared to the trash talking fourth-grader running his mouth this year.<\/p>\n<p>I gladly put the book on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbizz.com\/Books%20Page\/myreadinglist.htm\">my reading list<\/a> which I&#8217;ve been keeping since 1979.  Its my fifth completed book this year and this one filled in a big hole in my understanding of the politics as my Dad first experienced it. I&#8217;m also hopeful to discover what my Grandfather made of Willkie. Born in 1887 my Grandfather Robb was a sober sided 53 when Willkie appeared and one of the party regulars having been appointed State Auditor by Kansas Governor Alf Landon six years earlier. <\/p>\n<p>I recently learned that my Mother and her sister donated reams of my Grandfather&#8217;s personal correspondence to the Kansas State Historical Museum. Dr. Jeffrey Sammons spent five days going through it in to make a fascinating presentation bout him last May at the World War One Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16861\">I have only mentioned Dr. Sammons twice in the blog<\/a> with very little explanation of what he did or discovered. What a shame. His work has been a considerable preoccupation of mine for a year and a half. What he discovered gives me hope that I might fill in some blanks about my Grandfather&#8217;s thoughts on the politics he lived through from Grover Cleveland to RM Nixon. I&#8217;m heading to another presentation in Grandfather&#8217;s honor in Topeka this coming Armistice Day &#8211; 99 years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&#038;ion=1&#038;espv=2&#038;ie=UTF-8#q=George+Robb+congressional+medal+of+Honor\">his actions won him<\/a> the Congressional Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n<p>Writing a book about him is not one of my immediate priorities but it is a longer range ambition. And golly, I just found a new picture (to me) of him in uniform on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_S._Robb\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/a6\/Robb-George-S-1919.jpg\/220px-Robb-George-S-1919.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three of my priorities are done now. The first was simply putting yesterday&#8217;s post in the blog. 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