Generations #249 By Hank Silverberg In his inaugural address in 1961, John F. Kennedy talked about a turnover in leadership. He used a metaphorical torch being passed to a new generation. Going out was the generation of Eisenhower and Roosevelt, and coming in was a new generation: "...proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed..." His message evoked a new way of thinking by a younger generation which had come of age during World War Two and was then ready to lead. Today we are again on the threshold of a...