Dear President-Elect Trump: I laughed inside when I first saw you announcing your bid to become president. Then I heard…
Author: David O. Leavitt
Dear President-Elect Trump: I awoke this morning to protests and riots across our land, protesting not just your election, but…
Good Morning Mr. Trump, Motive is important. What constitutes success or failure, mostly depends on our motive—what we have sought…
Dear President-Elect, I’ve been thinking today about the difference between leadership and popularity. We have a practice of calling those…
Dear Mr. Trump, South Africa has taught us a lesson we all can learn. In the early nineties, South Africa…
Dear Mr. Trump, I told you in my first letter that I laughed at your candidacy announcement. Most of America…
Good Morning Mr. Trump, Invisible forces exist all around us, invisible to us all. But they exist, nonetheless. Gravity is…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Nelson Mandela left prison in 1990 and became the central figure in the African National Congress (ANC).…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I am heartened today by news that you are meeting tomorrow with Mitt Romney—one of your harshest…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Self-interest in politics plagues us at every level. It starts with our definition of public service.…
Dear President-Elect Trump: It’s Sunday, and it seems you’re working nearly around the clock to put together your cabinet. I…
Dear President-Elect Trump: All-encompassing, all-consuming—I imagine that’s how you would describe building a government. No one has written a manual…
Dear President-Elect Trump: If you close your eyes and focus deep within, you can see her. You can see her…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Your dad gave you Manhattan to develop into your own business while he retained Brooklyn and Queens…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I opened the Black Friday ads last night to see if there was anything in them that…
Dear President-Elect Trump: From the outside looking in, it seems like there’s mutiny brewing. Kellyanne Conway, your campaign manager, and…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Viktor Yushchenko is a man you ought to get to know. You’ll remember him as the leader…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Rafim; His name was Rafim. Though we had a relationship, of sorts, during the entire time it…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I had never heard of an epiglottis. I was even more surprised to learn that I have…
Dear President-Elect Trump: In a tug of war, a flag is placed at the mid-point of a very long rope. …
Dear Mr. Trump: Broad paint brushes cover more canvas than fine brushes. But they cannot illustrate the details in a…
Dear Mr. Trump, There’s a weight to anger, pride, and hate that is spiritually discernible, even though it is physically…
Dear Mr. Trump: I awoke this morning to soft, powdery snow falling from a crisp gray Latvian sky. Membrane thin…
Dear Mr. Trump: This is the 25th letter that I’ve ever written to a President or President-Elect of the United…
Dear President-Elect Trump: In my letter, Tug of War, I talked about the tension in politics that keeps us politically…
Dear President-Elect Trump: With the exception of death, every problem in life is potentially solvable. Someday we will solve the…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Does it strike you as odd that we have to regulate, monitor, and police those whom we…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Seventy-five years ago yesterday, the United States was drawn into WWII when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. …
Dear President-Elect Trump: My dad grew up shoeless and penniless but not hopeless in South Eastern Nevada. My mother’s circumstances…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Enter The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and everywhere you look you see the phrase: “Go…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I told you about our son who attended West Point. He’s now a First Lieutenant, deployed in…
Dear President-Elect Trump: The prohibition against religion is its own religion. The Soviets prohibited religious expression, imprisoning or otherwise punishing…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Republicans and Democrats have very different outlooks on how to benefit America. It is a constant struggle,…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Unbridled self-interest in public office is the most significant obstacle to solving our problems. Senators and representatives…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Smoking kills. We know that. But we didn’t always. In fact, we used to celebrate smoking. Looking…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Sofia spent her pre-teen years in a small Ukrainian town, 20 miles East of Kyiv. Born in…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I had a friend who once told me that as a father he would rather be obeyed…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Tomorrow is your real election day. The American people voted six weeks ago, and it was an…
Dear President-Elect Trump: The year was 1624. Sweden had been at war with neighboring nations, and the Swedish king wanted…
Dear President-Elect Trump: My daughter, Danielle, wrote a poem in 2010 when she was 17 years old. As I have…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Grace is a Rwandan Christian. She was a young mother when government-sanctioned genocide motivated the spontaneous creation…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Loa Utah is a small Central Utah town. In the center of town is an old rock…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Today is Christmas Adam. Christmas Adam? Well, it’s Christmas Adam because tomorrow is Christmas Eve. I had…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I’ve been thinking today about my favorite Christmas Eve, ever. December 2004 found Chelom and me and…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Merry Christmas. I thank you for your willingness to say Merry Christmas, rather than Happy Holidays. Why?…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I love visiting with taxi drivers. Some of the world’s most interesting people are taxi drivers. A…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Look at a body of sand from a distance, and we see nothing but one giant mass…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Approximately fifteen years ago I had a conversation on an airplane that I’ve never forgotten. I was…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Yesterday I told you about two women who experienced personal tragedy in their lives at the hands…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I grew up in rural America. In our town of 10,000 people, the 4th of July was…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Tomorrow is New Year’s Day. For many, it’s a time of renewal—a time of recommitment and to…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Happy New Year!! It’s a big year for all of us, and so much of it rides…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Central Pennsylvania is incredibly beautiful country. Nestled smack dab in the middle of Central Pennsylvania is State…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I’ll never forget my first case as a young lawyer. Just out of law school, Chelom and…
Dear President-Elect Trump: My son, Adam, graduated from The United States Military Academy at West Point. It was a grateful…
Dear President-Elect Trump: A few days ago I told you the story of one of my brothers, speeding through the…
Dear President-Elect Trump: I continue today, the thoughts of yesterday’s letter. My letter today, however, is essentially the words of…
Dear President-Elect Trump: It’s Saturday across our land. The penultimate Saturday before you’re sworn in as President of the United…
January 8th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Soon you will be our forty-fifth president. My November 20th, 2016 letter quoted our…
January 9th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Chelom and I graduated from law school in 1991 and moved to Fillmore, Utah,…
January 10th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Yesterday, I told you the story of Tim Todd (not his real name) and…
January 11th, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: Clare Okerlund owned the farm adjacent to the farm that I worked on when…
January 12th, 2017 Yesterday I started a story about my Great Uncle Clare. Most days I drove my motorcycle along…
January 13, 2017 Dear President-Elect Trump: The 4:00 a.m. air in State College, Pennsylvania bit at my face during the…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Thirteen years ago, on a cold November night, my family and I stood surrounded by a million…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Several of my letters have referred to the invisible forces around us. I referred to them in…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Fear is the world’s dominant power—that is when love is not present. With the emergence of love,…
Dear President-Elect Trump: You’re a Presbyterian—a Christian. Many in America are Jewish. Still, others are Muslim. While extremists in each…
Dear President-Elect Trump: Eighty-three percent of Americans identify themselves as Christian—including you. While I write today from the Christian perspective,…
Dear President-Elect Trump: We have never heard of most of our national benefactors—men and women who sacrificed portions or all…