At an annual event for Democratic governors, optimism about next year overshadowed the search for a long-term vision. As Gretchen Whitmer put it, adding an expletive: “Let’s go!”
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, the new vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association, in Grand Rapids this summer. Asked this weekend in Phoenix if she planned to run for president, she shot back, “Who knows?”
The death of Sun Yat-sen, the suppression of a labor protest, and a visit to China by a member of the Roosevelt family led to the bureau’s opening in 1925.