Re
“Thoughts on Donald Trump’s legacy as he prepares to leave office” (Jan. 18): It’s been observed that young people will remember significant events in their life while not retaining the mundane ones at the time. In that vein I offer this anecdote from 1952.
My parents were life-long New Deal Democrats, obviously supporting Adlai Stevenson.
One morning when it was clear that he had lost to Gen. Eisenhower, my mother (although clearly disappointed) handed me a kitchen pot and wooden spoon. She told me to go outside and make a racket. I asked why, knowing that their man had been defeated.