Dear President-Elect Trump: I awoke this morning to protests and riots across our land, protesting not just your election, but…
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Dear Mr. Trump, I told you in my first letter that I laughed at your candidacy announcement. Most of America…
Good Morning Mr. Trump, Invisible forces exist all around us, invisible to us all. But they exist, nonetheless. Gravity is…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Nelson Mandela left prison in 1990 and became the central figure in the African National Congress (ANC).…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I am heartened today by news that you are meeting tomorrow with Mitt Romney—one of your harshest…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Self-interest in politics plagues us at every level. It starts with our definition of public service.…
Dear President-Elect Trump: It’s Sunday, and it seems you’re working nearly around the clock to put together your cabinet. I…
Dear President-Elect Trump: All-encompassing, all-consuming—I imagine that’s how you would describe building a government. No one has written a manual…
Dear President-Elect Trump: If you close your eyes and focus deep within, you can see her. You can see her…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Your dad gave you Manhattan to develop into your own business while he retained Brooklyn and Queens…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I opened the Black Friday ads last night to see if there was anything in them that…
Dear President-Elect Trump: From the outside looking in, it seems like there’s mutiny brewing. Kellyanne Conway, your campaign manager, and…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Viktor Yushchenko is a man you ought to get to know. You’ll remember him as the leader…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Rafim; His name was Rafim. Though we had a relationship, of sorts, during the entire time it…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I had never heard of an epiglottis. I was even more surprised to learn that I have…
Dear President-Elect Trump: In a tug of war, a flag is placed at the mid-point of a very long rope. …
Dear Mr. Trump: Broad paint brushes cover more canvas than fine brushes. But they cannot illustrate the details in a…
Dear Mr. Trump, There’s a weight to anger, pride, and hate that is spiritually discernible, even though it is physically…
Dear Mr. Trump: I awoke this morning to soft, powdery snow falling from a crisp gray Latvian sky. Membrane thin…
Dear Mr. Trump: This is the 25th letter that I’ve ever written to a President or President-Elect of the United…
Dear President-Elect Trump: In my letter, Tug of War, I talked about the tension in politics that keeps us politically…
Dear President-Elect Trump: With the exception of death, every problem in life is potentially solvable. Someday we will solve the…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Does it strike you as odd that we have to regulate, monitor, and police those whom we…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Seventy-five years ago yesterday, the United States was drawn into WWII when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. …
Dear President-Elect Trump: My dad grew up shoeless and penniless but not hopeless in South Eastern Nevada. My mother’s circumstances…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Enter The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and everywhere you look you see the phrase: “Go…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I told you about our son who attended West Point. He’s now a First Lieutenant, deployed in…
Dear President-Elect Trump: The prohibition against religion is its own religion. The Soviets prohibited religious expression, imprisoning or otherwise punishing…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Republicans and Democrats have very different outlooks on how to benefit America. It is a constant struggle,…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Unbridled self-interest in public office is the most significant obstacle to solving our problems. Senators and representatives…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Smoking kills. We know that. But we didn’t always. In fact, we used to celebrate smoking. Looking…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Sofia spent her pre-teen years in a small Ukrainian town, 20 miles East of Kyiv. Born in…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I had a friend who once told me that as a father he would rather be obeyed…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Tomorrow is your real election day. The American people voted six weeks ago, and it was an…
Dear President-Elect Trump: The year was 1624. Sweden had been at war with neighboring nations, and the Swedish king wanted…
Dear President-Elect Trump: My daughter, Danielle, wrote a poem in 2010 when she was 17 years old. As I have…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Grace is a Rwandan Christian. She was a young mother when government-sanctioned genocide motivated the spontaneous creation…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Loa Utah is a small Central Utah town. In the center of town is an old rock…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Today is Christmas Adam. Christmas Adam? Well, it’s Christmas Adam because tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I had…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I’ve been thinking today about my favorite Christmas Eve, ever. December 2004 found Chelom and me and…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Merry Christmas. I thank you for your willingness to say Merry Christmas, rather than Happy Holidays. Why?…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I love visiting with taxi drivers. Some of the world’s most interesting people are taxi drivers. A…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Look at a body of sand from a distance, and we see nothing but one giant mass…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Approximately fifteen years ago I had a conversation on an airplane that I’ve never forgotten. I was…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Yesterday I told you about two women who experienced personal tragedy in their lives at the hands…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I grew up in rural America. In our town of 10,000 people, the 4th of July was…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Tomorrow is New Year’s Day. For many, it’s a time of renewal—a time of recommitment and to…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Happy New Year!! It’s a big year for all of us, and so much of it rides…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Central Pennsylvania is incredibly beautiful country. Nestled smack dab in the middle of Central Pennsylvania is State…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I’ll never forget my first case as a young lawyer. Just out of law school, Chelom and…
Dear President-Elect Trump: My son, Adam, graduated from The United States Military Academy at West Point. It was a grateful…
Dear President-Elect Trump: A few days ago I told you the story of one of my brothers, speeding through the…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I continue today, the thoughts of yesterday’s letter. My letter today, however, is essentially the words of…
Dear President-Elect Trump: It’s Saturday across our land. The penultimate Saturday before you’re sworn in as President of the United…
January 8th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Soon you will be our forty-fifth president. My November 20th, 2016 letter quoted our…
January 9th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Chelom and I graduated from law school in 1991 and moved to Fillmore, Utah,…
January 10th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Yesterday, I told you the story of Tim Todd (not his real name) and…
January 11th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Clare Okerlund owned the farm adjacent to the farm that I worked on when…
January 12th, 2017 Yesterday I started a story about my Great Uncle Clare. Most days I drove my motorcycle along…
January 13, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: The 4:00 a.m. air in State College, Pennsylvania bit at my face during the…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Thirteen years ago, on a cold November night, my family and I stood surrounded by a million…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Several of my letters have referred to the invisible forces around us. I referred to them in…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Fear is the world’s dominant power—that is when love is not present. With the emergence of love,…
Dear President-Elect Trump: You’re a Presbyterian—a Christian. Many in America are Jewish. Still, others are Muslim. While extremists in each…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christian—including you. While I write today from the Christian perspective,…
Dear President-Elect Trump: We have never heard of most of our national benefactors—men and women who sacrificed portions or all…