Johnson Has Courage in Saying the President Is Lax on AIDS Help
It takes tremendous courage for a citizen to take on the President, as Magic Johnson did when he accused President Bush of dropping the ball on AIDS. Indeed, his highly visible resignation from the AIDS Commission, and his widely reported criticism of Mr. Bush, could come to be seen, in a biography yet to be written, as the single bravest deed of his life.
I can well imagine the internal anguish and external pressure preceding his decision.
He earns my gratitude for teaching us democracy’s most valuable lesson: that we the people should never hesitate to speak up, in any way we can, to criticize or correct those we elect to serve us--not rule us.
HAROLD WILLENS, Los Angeles
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