Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein After a week of flags and phone calls, and rather typical flare-ups in the era of Trump, some voices from the past and present sought to bring a hush to the noise. Two former presidents, from much different background and persuasions, urged a path forward that drew on the best American traditions. The Bush and Obama visions seemed somehow aligned with lessons on how to not just be a president, but how to be an American. Enter Gen. John Kelly, the White House chief of staff and a Gold Star father, with a riveting brief speech on service and sacrifice. "I just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die in the battlefield, I thought that might be sacred," Kelly said. It's selective hearing, if not downright disingenuous, for Kelly to be outraged by others' behavior and not that of his own boss. Much of the uproar this week wasn't about what President Donald Trump originally said to the Gold Star family of a soldier killed in an ambush in Niger, but that he compared his reaction to his predecessors', and that he couldn't let the family or its congresswoman have the last word. But the lesson about what matters should remain. Whether it's Kelly, or Barack Obama urging an end to the "politics of division," or George W. Bush advising to "remember our values," the lessons stand for those across the political spectrum – starting with the current president himself. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks It's hard eno... Link to the full article to read more