Entry in progress—B.P.
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these” is a saying that has been printed on many images.


Wikipedia: Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From 1952 through 2008, Harvey’s programs reached as many as 24 million people a week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 American Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers.

4 February 1964, Greenwood (MS) Commonwealth, “Put the Toothpaste Back in the Tube: by Paul Harvey, pg. 8, col. 6:
Times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Time magazine
Paul Harvey: The End of the Story
By Richard Corliss Sunday, Mar. 01, 2009
“This is Paul Harvey.” That clarion Midwestern voice was its own time machine; it carried listeners back to radio days of yore, when a distinctive vocal performance was as important as good looks are in TV news today. The opinions Harvey expressed were old-fashioned as well: politically and socially conservative, the musings of a grandpa who’s seen it all — or, as he put it, “In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”