Leonard Pitts: With the death toll mounting, Trump keeps tweeting
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
May 27, 2020
2 minutes
Always before, there have been words. Always before, someone crafted them with writerly skill and gave them to the president to give to us. Always, before.
When seven people died aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, President Ronald Reagan spoke of how, just that morning, they “waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’”
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