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Originally Posted by boxcar
I second that motion! I listened to the speech while working on my spreadsheet project.
I was totally wowed that a public figure would give a speech wherein it's core subject was integrity and ethics. And I nearly fell off my chair when he quoted the passage out of John 8.
Tillerson is obviously a man who has great depth to himself. He truly understands this nation's (and indeed the entire world's) core problem and the daunting challenge that lies before all of us -- Truth! To be truthful as way of life is to be a person of integrity. If any of us here feels, thinks or believes that we, as a nation, have missed that mark of truthfulness over these many decades, then perhaps you can begin to appreciate just how tenuous our form of democracy has become. We have been living perilously and recklessly for many, many years -- personally, professionally and politically. For those of you who have been around here for a while and know me, you might recall that I have long maintained that the is country's core problem is first and foremost one of morality (or ethics) -- not politics!
Tillerson gets this. I get this. But how many of you get it?
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Box, yes, you have said these things all along. You sure have.
This address was truly outstanding. I have cared about this man and his qualities since reading the book, Private Empire....the story of Exxon Mobil.
When CBS' Margaret Brennan interviewed him for 60 Minutes and snickered when he spoke of his being an Eagle Scout and his lifetime involvement with scouting...she showed how outclassed she was. ... Rex didn't flinch. She was so far over her head.
And, yes, I get it....I've been tested and humbled enough that I don't know where I'd be without it.
