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The Civility Tour: Jim Leach Throws the Opposite of a Tea Party
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The audience was polite. It had to be. After all, this was no tea party. It was a stop on Jim Leach's 50-state "civility tour," and if any one of the 200 or so in attendance felt anxiety about rising hostility in today's political and social discourse, only genteel venting was allowed. Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, made his case Thursday night at the Levine Museum of the New South in a program presented by the museum and the North Carolina Humanities Council. The former Iowa Republican congressman -- appointed by Democratic President Obama ...
Oh, Behave! Former GOP Rep. Seeks End to Uncivil Discourse
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 20) -- America has developed a troubling mean streak, the new chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities declared Friday, and his organization is launching a campaign to do something about it. "Civilization requires civility. Words matter," James Leach said during a speech at the National Press Club, his first major address as head of the independent grant-making agency. "To label someone a 'communist' may spark unspeakable acts; to call a country 'evil' may cause a surprisingly dangerous counterreaction." In an effort to lower the polity's temperature, the NEH ...
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