NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Run of the Place
Regnery, Alfred S.
NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Run of the Place by Alfred S. Regnery P RESIDENTS LIKE TO THINK OF THEMSELVES as “running the country,” and presidential candidates virtually salivate at the...
...Alfred S. Regnery,publisher of The American Spec tator, is writing a book on the conservative movement...
...The New York Mint The recent U.S...
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...2517 Edina, Minnesota ObverseReverseSmithsonian Institution® A portion of the sales proceeds from your purchase of this licensed product supports the chartered educational purposes “In God We Trust,” has numismatists digging In 1864, America’s first attempt to add a Longacre’s sketchpads, the design remained unseen Longacre’s notes stored in the National Numismatics found that the famed designer’s first attempt at the the words “Our Trust Is In God...
...Except for Ronald Reagan, whom he considers the only successful president of the last half century, Novak found America’s chief executives to be a rather sorry lot—self-centered, spiteful, deceitful, and incompetent are a few of the terms he tosses around to describe the political class...
...Was the motto shortened to accommodate first endeavor to convert U.S...
...Felix Morley, an early conservative philosopher and journalist, and an astute student of the federal system, wrote that the American system works because of a simple paradox: “By the adoption of arrangements strongly negative towards the power of government, the Republic has so far permitted and encouraged its citizens to act affirmatively in their own interests...
...2007 New York Mint is a private company and is not affiliated with the United States Mint...
...Instead of appearing on a $20 Gold Double Eagle, the first coin to utilize Why the shortened motto...
...But watching the new Democratic Congress fail in nearly every effort makes it clear that the Founders’ system still works...
...But Novak’s description of presidents does raise an interesting question...
...The design was the motto was Longacre’s Two-Cent piece with the motto shortened to “In God We Trust...
...Leadership, according to Novak, rather than management, is the ingredient that makes a president successful—the ability to inspire the staff and, especially, the American people...
...At a recent newsmaker breakfast sponsored by The American Spectator, columnist Robert Novak, who has been reporting on politics—and presidents— for the past half century, was asked to comment on the presidents he has known and written about...
...It’s something of a scary thought when you consider the caliber of the people who have held the office and those who would like to...
...Conservatives like the Constitution the way it was written, which is why they want courts to interpret it as the Founders intended—constricting and diversifying government power and preserving the liberty of individuals...
...coinage with this magnificent proposed-motto design—struck for the very first time from his actual sketches discovered in the numismatic vault at the Smithsonian Institution...
...Hillary Clinton told the New York Times, as she settled into her presidential campaign, that she was compelled to run because “I know what it takes to run the country...
...This Silver Proof is not legal tender and the U.S...
...Luckily for us, the Founders, recognizing that the greatest threat to liberty was an expanding government, created a system that does not work very well...
...As we look at today’s candidates, it is a little difficult to find one whom Novak will like any better than those he has known over his long career...
...Part of that interest is, increasingly, fighting off the government, but nevertheless the system continues to encourage us to act in our own interests, which we do, often very effectively...
...Discovered in a Smithsonian Institution Vault… To Show America’s “Trust In God” New York Mint of the National Numismatic Collection, housed in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History...
...Liberals, on the other hand, find it necessary to distort the Constitution in order to expand government power...
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...The answer is that America works because presidents don’t “run the country...
...NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The Run of the Place by Alfred S. Regnery P RESIDENTS LIKE TO THINK OF THEMSELVES as “running the country,” and presidential candidates virtually salivate at the possibility...
...Checks and balances and separation of powers stymie politicians’ efforts to create more government, and prevent any one branch from having too much power...
...They run the executive branch of the federal government—which certainly has a great deal of 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2007 power—but the country runs itself...
...Needless to say, government has grown by leaps and bounds and continues to do so...
...Now you can secure the world’s first and only “Our Trust Is In God” Double Eagle Proof for (plus S&H...
...The results revealed not only the first design attempting to use the motto, but led to the exclusive striking of this “lost” design for the VERY FIRST TIME...
...Unseen for over 140 years...
...Why is it that the country still works reasonably well, has a robust economy, relatively low taxes, and is still the best place in the world to live, if the presidents “running ” it have been mired in mediocrity and incompetence...
...coins...
...religious motto to its coins was rejected...
...Running the country” sounds like a lot more fun than letting people do things for themselves...
...Listening to the current crop of presidential candidates—particularly the Democrats—one can only wonder whether they think much about the Founders, about the Constitution, and about the incentives that get people to act in their own interests, or about the threat the government poses to liberty...
...Novak has just released a wonderfully readable memoir under the title The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington, which I highly recommend to anybody wanting to know how a reporter in Washington, or even how Washington itself, works...
...While studying Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, researchers motto was actually for a $20 Gold Double Eagle with shelved as Congress debated over the inclusion of the motto on U.S...
...Mint chief engraver James B. for over 140 years—until now...
...the smaller denomination...
...Mint has not endorsed it nor the New York Mint...
...We’ll never know, but now you can own a pure silver Proof of Longacre’s an ultra-cameo Gem Proof quality, this wonderful design everyone’s collection...
...Mint release of the new $1 Presidential Coins, some without the motto into the history of the motto...
...Filed away in the pages of U.S...
Vol. 40 • September 2007 • No. 7
