I would like to share with our Peninsula Daily News readers a brief but very important historic item.
On Nov. 2, 1800, on President John Adams’ second night in what we now refer to as the White House, he wrote the following in a letter to his wife, Abigail:
“I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it.
“May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.”
Then 145 years later, toward the end of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had John Adams’ prayer carved on the stone fireplace in the State Dining Room.
Something to think about for all of us.
Dorothea Morgan,
Port Angeles