The Literate President

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/opinion/the-literate-president.html

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To the Editor:

Re “How Reading Nourished Obama During the White House Years” (Critic’s Notebook, front page, Jan. 16):

I am deeply grateful to Michiko Kakutani for reminding me of the vast distinctions between the scholarly intellect and virtuous morality of President Obama and the character of the man soon to take his place.

President-elect Donald Trump is demonstrably unlettered, incurious, callous and dangerously lacking in knowledge and comprehension. He does not read books, as he has noted — except, I presume, for those he signed, written with or by others.

For me, it is no exaggeration to say that on Jan. 20, the American presidency will plummet from light to darkness.

MARILYN HODER-SALMON

Miami