“The contrast between private opulence and public squalor on most of our panorama is now too obvious to be denied. Yet we still spend per capita almost as much on advertising to multiply the private wants of our people as we do on education to enable them to seek a fuller, wiser, and more satisfying civic existence. The face we present to the world, especially through our mass circulation media, is one of the individual or family as a high consumption unit with minimal social responsibilities- father happily drinking his favorite beer, mother dreamily fondling soft garments newly rinsed in a wonderful new detergent, the children gaily calling from the barbecue pit for a famous sauce for their steak. With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America’s exalted purposes and inspiring way of life?”
-Adlai, 1960

Anyone come across any mind-blowing Eisenhower quotations lately?

peterfeld:

America’s real wrong turn was in not electing him. Everything since has just been the aftermath.