Common sense isn't.
Although the site is usually closed to the public, there is a public open house on the first Saturday in April and October, in most years. A variety of displays, souvenir vendors, and food booths were near the parking area. Speeches were given at the monument at ground zero. Old photos were displayed along the fence around the site. People wandered around looking, photographing, measuring radiation, talking and thinking.
Buses are provided for rides to the McDonald Ranch House, about 2 miles away.
| Quote of the moment |
| The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter to his daughter, Helen H. Taft, October 3, 1909. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 1: 492, Farrar & Rinehart (1939). On Taft’s suspicion that Roosevelt had been less than a perfect president. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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