Yes, It’s Midnight in America’s Garden of Good and Evil

By Michael Willard

Long ago, I found America’s goodness in the most troubling of times.

Richard Nixon had resigned before being convicted by the US Senate of a host of Watergate-related misdeeds. President Gerald Ford was running for a full-term against peanut farmer and former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter.

The democratic system had worked, but the country seemed rudderless, especially after those scenes of frightened-Vietnamese escaping by helicopter pell-mell from the US Embassy…