To the editor: I don’t agree with the writer’s assertion that “America’s greatness has by no means rested on the brilliance of its politicians” (“What a 700-year-old Italian fresco can educate America in the present day,” July 9). Three presidents come to thoughts.
George Washington established the custom of a two-term presidency when many individuals needed him to grow to be king of the brand new United States of America. Abraham Lincoln insisted that the nation keep as one united nation when the problem of slavery resulting in the Civil Conflict virtually tore it aside. Franklin D. Roosevelt received this nation by years of the Nice Despair and led a victory over fascism with our allies in World Conflict II.
If this isn’t political greatness, I don’t know what’s.
Ann C. Hayman, Westwood
