Politics is the Great Divider. It sets many good people against each other and destroys many lives and careers.

Music is the Great Uniter.

I will always remember Burl Ives for the tremendous contribution he made to folk music, and not for the political squabbles that arose during the HUAC witchhunts. I will also remember him for the great acting he did in movies like "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof", "The Big Country", and "Let No Man Write My Epitaph".