To the editor: Columnist Jackie Calmes nails it (“As we approach July 4, the capital is, fittingly, a mess,” June 4). This piece jogged my memory of the “Nice Gatsby” social gathering some months in the past, the place the president entertained friends amid big martini glasses brimming with scantily clad ladies. However right here’s what F. Scott Fitzgerald needed to say about these kinds of gatherings and folks:
“They have been careless individuals … they smashed up issues and creatures after which retreated again into their cash or their huge carelessness or no matter it was that stored them collectively, and let different individuals clear up the mess they’d made.”
Due to your columnist for ringing this bell.
David Lester, Santa Ynez
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To the editor: I loved Calmes’ current column, and I’m imagining the Roman Colosseum, full of sycophants applauding the sight of blood on the sand awaiting expensive chief’s thumb — up or down. However image this on the garden of the Individuals’s Home. It’s unhappy that that is occurring.
Peter Ambrose, Claremont
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To the editor: I consider that the president who succeeds Donald Trump will be capable to win just by promising that she or he will tear down every bit of development in Washington with Trump’s identify on it.
Joan Walston, Santa Monica
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To the editor: The two hundredth anniversary of america of America in 1976 was a festivity of American freedom. The 250th, in distinction, appears like a “celebration of life” — that’s, a memorial, wherein we are saying our last goodbyes to the republic we dearly liked and whose loss we grieve. But we dedicate ourselves to the hope of her resurrection for the advantage of future generations.
Eleanor Egan, Costa Mesa
