George H.W. Bush: “USIA is founded on the belief, the certainty, if you will, that ideas matter, especially to this nation, a nation…”

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

Bigotry seems emboldened.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just, and the weak are valued. And we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with…