HERE WE GO AGAIN
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Forget Trump, remember first black PGA winner Charlie Sifford and the line to Obama
Charlie Sifford, the first black golfer of the modern era to win a PGA event, cemented a milestone in history, writes Kevin McCallum
A friend’s little boy cried on his first day at school this week. He had been fine, smiling, engaging, up until the point where he found out his mother was not going to be hanging around the school all day. Then came tears so big and heavy they could break a heart. My friend’s little boy was better on his second day at school. I have little doubt his third day will be a ripper and by next week he will a proper schoolboy with all that it entails. Some will feel a need to cry on Donald Trump’s first day at work on Friday. He will be president. Donald Trump doesn’t drink. He has always been sober. I would prefer it if he was a boozer. It would give some sense to his madness. Richard Nixon was a drinker. When North Korea shot down a US spy plane in 1969, Nixon ordered the joint chiefs to launch a nuclear strike in retaliation. Henry Kissinger told the chiefs not to do anything until Nixon had sobered up the next morning.At least Nixon could sober up. Trump will never grow up, forever tr...
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