COMMENT POSTED TO AN EDITORIAL IN THE GUARDIAN
The Guardian view on
Trump’s State of the Union: platitudes, few plans and plenty of division
________________________
Response to a comment
about Thomas Jefferson’s not giving a State of the Union speech and fearing
public speaking:
He had a fear of public speaking at least in part because of
his thin, high-pitched voice. It wasn't impressive.
Of course, it could be argued too that this perhaps most
secretive of Presidents - despite all of his written stuff, most of which he
completely ignored during his actual terms of office – never wanted to reveal
himself as he really was.
Everything from his written pieces to the design of his
plantation house, Monticello, involved hiding things and glorious false facades.
