Bruce always has insightful things to say. We looked backward to look forward at issues such as shareholder activism and its remarkable impact on energy companies in the past week the responsibilities and challenges to companies engaging in corporate activism the fate of the GOP the successes of President Biden’s first 100 days and the trials of the next 100 - and many more. The impact of Guttenberg’s printing press and how it led directly to Martin Luther - the first high authority blogger - and the Protestant Reformation the collapse of the Whigs and birth of the Republican party in the 1850s George Washington and his respect for decorum the cycles of American history when we have experienced the rise of corporate political activism the relationship between President Ronald Reagan, Tip O’Neill and Ted Kennedy and their shared love of single malt Scotch as it soothed both their souls and their differences.
Bruce is a history buff he deftly compares and contrasts administrations over the decades.
Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Bruce Mehlman, founder of the bipartisan lobbying firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas, and probably as famous for his quarterly slide decks of the pulse of Washington as he is for his access and knowledge of how Washington works. If only we knew the combination, we could be back in that moment. Maybe memories are solidly tangible, like old photographs in a drawer somewhere. We aren’t physically back in time, but part of us is, and at that moment we wonder if time is linear after all.
Tony Newman and Douglas Phillips of the late 1960s television show, Time Tunnel, who tumbled out of that cornucopia-shaped black and white striped tunnel during the credits. Whoosh, and there we are, back in time like the characters Drs. What triggers that feeling is often the gentlest prodding to our senses - a song popular during our first love the pungent smell of a favorite childhood meal instantly transporting us back to our grandmother’s kitchen sunlight reflecting the way it did at an important moment in time hearing or even using a favorite expression of a lost loved one. After a certain age, we find ourselves just as naturally looking backwards with frequency, often accompanied by the feeling of “diamonds and rust,” both joy and melancholy. The difference, it would seem, between youth and aging is that in youth we look forward and naturally see a boundless horizon and infinite deposits of time.
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