Conversation with Stuart Weeks!

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My cousin referred a fascinating person to me today who happened to be in Savannah..  He came by the house and we had a very interesting 30 minute chat which could have lasted longer but for the fact that he had to catch a plane.

He is Stuart B. Weeks, grandson of the Sec.of Commerce, Sinclair Weeks, in FDR's Administration.

Stuart is doing an article for National Geographic and he is traveling in the South interviewing people for same.  He also is the founder of an interesting  organization and I have printed a few excerpts. (See 1 below.)
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Dick
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1)The following introduces the movement: Of, By, and for the People. A working draft — please note —  that invites your "outspoken realism”.

If it strikes a chord, I look forward to hearing from you and will board a plane and return — accept your kind invitation — whenever it works best for your schedule.

I look forward to putting hearts and heads together on the further platform for the movement: We the People.

Con-cord-e,

Stuart Sinclair Weeks 

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“The Heart — the Heart — there was the little, yet boundless sphere, wherein existed the original wrong, of which the crime and misery of this outward world were merely types. Purify that inner sphere; and the many shapes of evil that haunt the outward, and which now seem almost our only realities, will turn to shadowy phantoms, and vanish of their own accord.”   — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stuart-Sinclair Weeks
Founder
Center for American Studies
Concord, MA 01742

stuartbweeks@gmail.com

WE  THE  PEOPLE  FOR  PRESIDENT

“If ‘We the People’ should indeed prove an entity, a corporate being, 

[imagine] what power that incorporation might one day represent.”

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle of Philadelphia

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A CALL TO PARTICIPATE

“To whom much is given, much is expected.”

“America, America, God shed his grace on thee”

Interview with the Good Lord/Great Spirit, as you will: 

That Power greater than, and yet no less a part of, our very Self.

The purpose of this interview is to outline the key issues, themes and life threads that are behind the following campaign. Readers are invited to bring their best thoughts to this “testament”, yeas and nays alike.

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Q:  Why are you running for president? 

A:  “That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom”, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, “and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” Need more be said — apart from the fact that the “race” is not about me, but we, We the People?

Q:  (Reflecting) You believe that such a government is in danger of perishing from the earth?

A:  We do, like the empires that have gone before us. 

Q:  What is your campaign strategy?

A:  It’s most simple. We live in extra-ordinary times. Such times ask for extra-ordinary efforts on the part of every citizen in the situations that we find ourselves in in life — if, that is, we wish to have a future worth envisioning for our children, grandchildren, and for the generations to come: “All Our Relations”. I trust that is clear?

Q:  It is. Why have you entered the race?

A:  As expressed, it is not a race. We are not running for president, but walking.

Q:  Meaning?

A:  As may become clearer in the following, when one “runs” it is easy to lose ones balance, trip, and fall. That is not our intent. We the People are in it for the long haul, irrespective of how the votes tally, the final count. 

Q:  Your concern is not about winning?

A:  That’s correct. Instead of getting distracted by both the race and finish line, We the People are assuming the executive mantel and will be working together — in the campaign itself — to address the problems-challenges-opportunities facing our nation. 

Q:  As opposed to making untold campaign promises: If you elect me I will do A, B, C, D . . . ?

A:  Correct. And, if not, back to “politics as usual”?

Q:  What has inspired this campaign?

A:  Our Founding Fathers and greatest public servants: Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, King, to name the most outstanding. Each of them recognized that the final result of such campaigns is in hands greater than our own. 

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