{"id":18966,"date":"2017-01-03T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T04:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2017-01-03T04:14:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T04:14:11","slug":"the-constitution-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18966","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our Constitution works &#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swearing in Ceremony of Gerald R. Ford as 38th President of the United States, August 9, 1974\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5qExW0HFCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You want a feeling of dire straits in the greatest nation on Earth?<\/p>\n<p>This 11-minute video ought to remind us all that we have a resilient nation, with a government cobbled together by a document that is as stout as ever.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because of those who insist\u00a0we are about to enter an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; era of crisis with the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Not so.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8, 1974, the nation watched one president resign and another one take office.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald R. Ford ascended to the presidency after being appointed vice president less than a year earlier; the man he replaced as VP had pleaded no contest to corruption charges. Before that he was a congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., whose No. 1 ambition was to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Fate\u00a0would steer\u00a0Gerald Ford down an entirely different path.<\/p>\n<p>As president, he told us that &#8220;our long national nightmare is over.&#8221; Richard Nixon was flying off to private life in California as President Ford took the reins of power.<\/p>\n<p>And as the new president told us, &#8220;Our Constitution works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it does.<\/p>\n<p>I harbor deep reservations and concern about whether the new president is up to the job he is about to assume.<\/p>\n<p>However, I take comfort in the words that an earlier president, Gerald Ford, delivered as we sought to recover from a constitutional crisis the likes of which the nation had never before endured.<\/p>\n<p>We certainly did recover. Whatever missteps the new president makes as he begins his term, I remain confident that our Constitution will continue to\u00a0work just\u00a0as our founders intended.<\/p>\n<p>You have to keep the faith.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want a feeling of dire straits in the greatest nation on Earth? This 11-minute video ought to remind us all that we have a resilient nation, with a government cobbled together by a document that is as stout as ever. I mention this because of those who insist\u00a0we are about to enter an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18966\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Our Constitution works &#8230;&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,1908,3940,5043],"class_list":["post-18966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gerald-ford","tag-richard-nixon","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18968,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions\/18968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}