DALE DAVENPORT

Patriot-News Opinion Columnist

• Time on our side
It's hard to believe that 45 years have passed since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

• A life without joy -- or hope of joy -- would be a pretty dismal place indeed.
Maybe it's because I've been covering politicians for so long that, when I heard Barack Obama was considering Hillary Clinton to become his secretary of state, I wondered whose idea it was.

• Lessons from the Wall
It was cold in Washington Tuesday, about 40 degrees, but the sun took off some of the chill as we walked toward the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

• State voters rejected stereotypes
In the spring of 1959, when I was a freshman in high school, a black upperclass man was elected president of our student council.