Rude Awakenings: When silence is the best choice
One of America’s premier weddings in 1905 was the marriage of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to his distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt, not because it featured the future president but because the sitting president, Theodore Roosevelt, gave the bride away.
When it was over, the president congratulated the groom, said, “Well, Franklin, there’s nothing like keeping the name in the family” and left the room, guests in tow, leaving the couple alone.
That was one of the instances that led Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter, to quip: “My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”
That description also fits our current president and its effect on our politics is magnified by the reach of 24-hour news networks and social media. Hardly a day has gone by since President Donald Trump announced his intentions to run in 2015 where one of his tweets hasn’t been — to his obvious great delight — the subject of news stories and endless discussion by analysts.
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