What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown’s Body was a step in the right direction. I’ve read it once, and I’m reading it again. But it’s too long to do what I mean. You can’t thrill people in 300 pages... The limit is about 300 words. Kipling’s Recessional really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around.
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Herbert Hoover was president of the united states from 1929 to 1933. Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia →