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Democratic Governors who came to call on him at his hotel, the committeemen who came in to call on him. They all complained. They all said, “ I don't know what's happening. What's happening in my town is terrible.” He became aware that everybody was just sunk.

He was better aware than they were that the economic condition of the country was so perilous that it could hardly be mentioned. The changes that he made, the things he put into the speech, both the night before and that morning, were changes aimed at giving the people courage for the sake of courage itself, recognizing, in a strange way, that the psychological attitude of courage was one of the great natural resources which could be called into play to operate a recovery program, to enable the people to make do with what they had in the meantime, and to not be fearful of the morrow, but to cooperate for the time being. Courage and the belief in the possibilities of the future was what was going to make the people, who had to carry the load of handling this emergency, bringing order out of chaos, and relieving destitution on a temporary basis, able to think of the new devices and the improvisations that would be necessary to deal with an unprecedented situation.

So those expressions were deliberate and were meant to invoke the spirit of courage, to overcome fear, to release