The next time Trump suggests that the 2020 election might be postponed, patriotic lawmakers should shut him down hard, Douglas Brinkley writes. 'Our country has seen worse and always had the fortitude and democratic idealism to carry on.' | CNNOpinion
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and CNN Presidential Historian. Read more opinion articles at CNN.
In June 1948, the situation in postwar Berlin was tense. For three years, the city had been divided into competing zones of occupation, but now the Soviet Union had cut the Western Allies' access routes, making a play for dominance. In Washington, DC, fears of a new war ran deep. At one particularly anxious meeting, a young staffer noticed that Secretary of State George Marshall remained cool and collected."Mr. Secretary," he asked,"how in the world can you remain so calm during this appalling crisis?" Marshall, who was the US Army's Chief of Staff during World War II, replied bluntly,"I've seen worse.
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