Something Small That Saved Us All

He embodied a buoyant attitude and a ready intellectual wit. This enabled him to inspire Americans to achieve wondrous things; the vital key was to empower all of us with the equal chance to participate and then to benefit. Leading from the front he would seem to beckon over his shoulder and say: Follow me! Like a track star fleet of foot his mind would race ahead striving to achieve the best for his fellow citizens. Will we ever catch up?