“My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking,” he began on March 12, 1933. He rebuilt trust between the governed and the governors. Until last night, to me, the President of the United States was merely a legend. It was (and is) to create sufficient political trust to give government’s health-care professionals the time and the flexibility to discover how to assert control over the coronavirus. The contrast between Roosevelt and Trump contains a larger lesson, involving public trust.

Source: Washington Post March 15, 2020 18:54 UTC