8.23.2026 – have lived in peace with

have lived in peace with
each other century and half
We cherish record

A notable spirit of cooperation has been responsible for major steps in our past progress.

That spirit animates both countries today.

We enjoy between us a larger volume of reciprocal trade than do any other two nations in the world.

Our peoples move freely back and forth across a boundary that has known neither gun nor fortress in over a century.

Our citizen-soldiers have three times fought together in the cause of freedom and today we are as one in our determination to defend our homelands.

We have lived in peace with each other for nearly a century and a half. We cherish this record.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks at the Formal Opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, June 26, 1959.

Ike closed his remarks with this:

So may this example be never forgotten by us, and may it never be ignored by others.

For in the reasonable resolution of the acute international problems of our time rests the single hope for world prosperity and happiness in peace, with justice for all.

I had no idea that when I came up with the idea of looking up President Eisenhower said on this occasion that I would find that past paragraph.

So may this example be never forgotten by us.

May it never be ignored by others.

For in the reasonable resolution of the acute international problems of our time rests the single hope for world prosperity and happiness in peace.

With justice for all.

If one makes the effort to check out the Official White House website today, this is what you find in the section under Presidential Proclamations.

Temporary Suspension Of Additional Duties To Offset Canadian Discrimination Against The Commerce Of The United States With Respect To Alcoholic Beverages, Dairy, And Motor Vehicles

I found as a fact that Canada is discriminating against the commerce of the United States through Canada’s motor vehicle tariff scheme; that this discrimination places the commerce of the United States at a disadvantage compared to the commerce of other countries; and that Canada’s imposition is unreasonable, is not equally enforced upon the like articles of every foreign country, and places a burden on the commerce of the United States.

In Proclamation 11046 of July 20, 2026, by The President Of The United States Of America.

I found as a fact that Canada’s imposition is unreasonable.

I found.

I.

For reasons many of my readers might understand that speech of Al Pacino’s in the movie, Scent of a Women, when Pacino’s Colonel Slade passionately defends Charlie.

Pacino’s speech ends with these words:

It’s a valuable future.

Believe me.

Don’t destroy it!

Protect it.

Embrace it.

It’s gonna make ya proud one day, I promise you.

Truly now, be honest.

Deep down, be honest with yourself.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “dark night of the soul where it is always three o’clock in the morning” honest.

No one and I mean no one can read Ike’s word and not feel that what Ike is talking about IS and HAS a valuable future.

Where you are honest you don’t want to destroy it!

You want to protect it.

You want to embrace it.

You know it has made you proud.

You know it’s gonna make you proud again.

I promise you.

And deep down, I feel in my heart, most Americans and I bet, most members of the current administration know this.

They know this example should never forgotten by us, and may it never be ignored by others.

They know that in the reasonable resolution of the acute international problems of our time rests the single hope for world prosperity and happiness in peace.

They know what it means to say with justice for all.

And I promise you this.

Thinking about the current administration.

It will never make us proud some day.

And those folks in the current administration know that too.