Replacing Failure with Integrity in The Episcopal Church
By Ladson F. Mills III
Special to Virtueonline
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November 8, 2013
Jon Meacham, author and journalist, in his address at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth observed that "praise without proportion is not praise but flattery." The great strength of Gerald Ford was not his lack of faults but his ability to learn from his failures. His integrity allowed him to rise above partisan divide during one of the greatest tragedies in this nation's history, and to pardon Richard Nixon. Arguably this decision cost him the presidency, but it facilitated the healing of a broken country.
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By Ladson F. Mills III
Special to Virtueonline
www.virtueonline.org
November 8, 2013
Jon Meacham, author and journalist, in his address at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth observed that "praise without proportion is not praise but flattery." The great strength of Gerald Ford was not his lack of faults but his ability to learn from his failures. His integrity allowed him to rise above partisan divide during one of the greatest tragedies in this nation's history, and to pardon Richard Nixon. Arguably this decision cost him the presidency, but it facilitated the healing of a broken country.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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