{"id":316463,"date":"2026-10-29T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316463\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T00:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T00:00:27","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-questions-for-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316463\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Editor: Questions for President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is my hope audience questions at the Compelling Perspectives Program focus less on former President George W. Bush\u2019s past sins of commission and more on present Bush sins of omission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All former Presidents\u2019 words remain influential to millions of Americans. But former President Bush has been conspicuously silent since 2016 on the many dangers and damages to the nation\u2019s norms and institutions by Donald Trump and MAGA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Letter to the Editor<\/a> of The Brown and White following its coverage of the \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally on Oct. 18, 2025, I suggested that Lehigh purchase and distribute copies of the book \u201cThe Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump\u201d written by 50 psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals. Published in 2025, it is readily available for online purchase. Other sources, in particular \u201cDuty to Warn\u201d also clearly explain Trump\u2019s psychopathy and malignant narcissism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those who wish to learn more about Bush\u2019s detrimental silence, see the Sept. 1 essay in The New Yorker, \u201cGeorge W. Bush\u2019s Code of Silence.<\/a>\u201d It was written by Jacob Weisberg, author of the new book \u201cProfiles in Cowardice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the most common signs displayed by protesters at the \u201cNo Kings\u201d rallies has been \u201cSilence is Complicity.\u201d Indeed, what questions need to be asked by the Lehigh community to help Bush re-think his \u201ccomplicity?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave Zakeski \u201879G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is my hope audience questions at the Compelling Perspectives Program focus less on former President George W.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4818,119,121,120,129037,13037],"class_list":["post-316463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-2-minute-read","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-governance-and-administration","tag-letter-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}