Poetry Is So Vital To Us Until

Roosevelt's Declaration That Americans Had 'nothing To Fear But Fear Itself' Was A Glorious Piece Of Inspirational Rhetoric And Just As Gloriously Wrong.

Journalism Talk Is Part Of The Nonstop Background Noise Of American Life.

Serious Journalism Need Not Be Solemn.

So There He Is At Last. Man On The Moon. The Poor Magnificent Bungler! He Can't Even Get To The Office Without Undergoing The Agonies Of The Damned, But Give Him A Little Metal, A Few Chemicals, Some Wire And Twenty Or Thirty Billion Dollars And Vroom! There He Is, Up On A Rock A Quarter Of A Million Miles Up In The Sky.

Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.