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Letter to the New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader
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| Title | Letter to the New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader |
| ASIN | 0312561652 -
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| Category | Written By Candidate/Ghostwriter |
| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Modified | Craverguy - June 28, 2010 05:26am |
| Description | United States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving member of the United States Senate in the history of our great Republic. Senator Byrd has served the people of West Virginia, and the nation, for fifty-four years, and has served alongside eleven Presidents. He was twice elected by his colleagues to the position of Senate Majority Leader and currently is chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. Byrd has lived through two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, the resignation of a U.S. President, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and traumatic military conflicts around the globe, including Iraq and Vietnam. And now, in his ninetieth year of life, he wants to share the commonsense lessons he has learned from his unique vantage point in history.
In Letter to the New President, Byrd recounts lessons drawn from his life as a young boy growing up poor in the coalfields of southern West Virginia to his rise to power in Washington, D.C. From his unique perspective in history, Byrd focuses his observations on underappreciated and seldom discussed virtues like personal responsibility, careful consideration before making decisions, and a sense of decency and fairness even toward fierce opponents. A student of history and a defender of our Constitution, Byrd looks to the past for lessons and, in Letter to the New President, studies present failures as guides for constructive lessons for the future. |
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