I grew up in a U.S.A.I.D. family. In the nineteen-sixties, as Trump was nurturing the bone spurs that exempted him from military service, my father was an officer in a program known as Food for Peace.

Here is some history: My father was married to my stepmother for 30 years. She acted as a mother to me growing up and we had a reasonably good relationship. My father and stepmother built a ...