By Patrick J. Buchanan
Growing up in Washington in the 1930s and ’40s, our home was, several
times, put under quarantine. A poster would be tacked on the door
indicating the presence within of a contagious disease — measles, mumps,
chicken pox, scarlet fever.
None of us believed we were victims of some sort of invidious
discrimination against large Catholic families. It was a given that
public health authorities were trying to contain the spread of a disease
threatening the health of children.
Out came the Monopoly board.
