To Inspire You

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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Today In History

• In 1955 - E. Frederic Morrow appointed administrative aide to President Eisenhower and became the first Black to hold an executive position on the White House staff.
  
• In 1893 - The first succesful open heart surgery without anesthesia was perfromed by Dr Daniel Hale Williams at Provident Hospital in Chicago