Basketball fans greeted POTUS with a chorus of loud boos, as the lowest rated Republican politician became the first sitting U.S. president to attend the NBA Finals at Game 3 of the championship series between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs. Meanwhile, the 7’4” Wembanyama totaled 32 points on 11-of-18 shooting, eight rebounds, six assists and three blocks, cutting the NY Knicks’ series lead to 2-1 and injecting life into a SA Spurs season that was on the brink.

Artist's rendering of U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed 'Independence Arch' near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. National Parks requests feedback for US taxpayers.

Who is and has always been the undisputed wannabe prince of total and complete denial?

President Denies He Pledged Not to Start New Wars
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/07/us/trump-news

Here is a social-history essay. Its not that children had more freedom in the past, but that the old system relied on participating families, making it difficult to revive once it changed. This observation gives explanatory power beyond simple nostalgia.
NOTE: While using this expression, the standard spelling is “the whole megillah”, meaning “the whole story” or “the whole thing.” It fits the nostalgic tone well.

Lest we forget: Just after midnight on June 5, 1968, Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Fresh from a crucial California primary victory, he had vowed to heal the nation’s divisions. Coming only two months after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and five years after his brother’s, America lost another chance at a different future. We must remember that day and resolve never to let the future of our democracy be stolen again.