I was watching a documentary on the Panama Canal a few days ago. It talked about how Roosevelt was the first president to take a trip abroad etc. and how the workers and lead engineers when they heard his speech were inspired and started to believe that the project could indeed be done.
not really saying anything other than very few leaders have that inspirational "thing" about them anymore. Most of the public views them as talking puppets. But any half decent leader a speech in general should inspire a country to do better.
these days that just does not happen very often.
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