Good morning, it’s Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation intended to be uplifting or educational. It’s also Friday the 13th, a date I commemorate every year by invoking the wisdom of a little-remembered Oklahoma senator named Robert Latham Owen Jr.
If Sen. Owen, a populist and a Democrat – at a time when that was not an oxymoron – is forgotten today, well, that reflects poorly on us, not him. He was an extraordinarily accomplished person. Born in Virginia four years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Owen gravitated to Oklahoma territory, which longed for…
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