a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth, Continuum, 2012; and Carter Wilkie, How modern leaders got John Winthrop’s ‘City on a Hill’ wrong: A call for humility has become the battle cry for American exceptionalism, CommonWealth Magazine, January 17, 2019.</ref> Winthrop's warning that "we will become a story" has been fulfilled several times in the four centuries since, as described in Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance by Kai T. Erikson in 1966. Use in political rhetoric On 9 January 1961, President-elect John F. Kennedy quoted the phrase during an address delivered to the General Court of Massachusetts: On November 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan referred to the same event and image in his Election Eve Address "A Vision for America". Reagan was reported to have been inspired by author Manly P. Hall and his book The Secret Destiny of America, which alleged a secret order of philosophers had created the idea of America as a country for religious freedom and self-governance. Reagan would reference this concept through multiple speeches; notably again in his January 11, 1989, farewell speech to the nation: U.S. Senator Barack Obama also made reference to the topic in his commencement address on June 2, 2006, at the University of Massachusetts Boston: In 2016, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney incorporated the idiom into a condemnation of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign: During the 2016 presidential race, Texas Senator Ted Cruz used the phrase during his speech announcing the suspension of his campaign. President Barack Obama also alluded to President Ronald Reagan's use of the phrase during his speech at the Democratic National Convention the same year, as he proposed a vision of America in contrast to that of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In 2017, former FBI Director James Comey used the phrase in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election: On November 10, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used the phrase while delivering an address at the inauguration of the Ronald Reagan Institute Center for Freedom and Democracy. Senator Amy Klobuchar used the phrase during opening remarks at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. Chair Bennie Thompson of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack used the phrase in his opening remarks to the first day of hearing on June 9. Use in