Jon Meacham, Random House executive vice president says: "I thought it was pitch-perfect in the sense that it was not about him. It was not a grand speech. It was him doing a kind of human interaction with the folks…I think it was what a president should do in the way that what President Bush did after the attacks was what a president should do."
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Jon Meacham, Random House executive vice president says: "I thought it was pitch-perfect in the sense that it was not about him. It was not a grand speech.