A Simple Truth We Should Never Forget

A Simple Truth We Should Never Forget
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Mark Hendrickson
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One of the wisest, most far-seeing, and most perceptive observations about our society was made decades ago by Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the hugely successful polio vaccine. A few days before his passing in 1995, Salk was speaking with Herb Meyer, the top assistant to William Casey, President Ronald Reagan’s first director of the CIA. The great doctor told Meyer that what concerned him the most about our country was that we were starting to forget important things that we had once known and understood.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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