Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

In this world of our in other lands, there are some people, who, in times past, have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have sold their heritage of freedom for the illusion of a living. They have yielded their democracy.

I believe in my heart that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They begin to know that here in America we are waging a great and successful war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is more than that; it is a war for the survival of democracy. We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

I accept the commission you have tendered me. I join with you. I am enlisted for the duration of the war.Just as it was time to fight corporate power in 1936, again it is now. We must take the power back from the industrial dictatorship (plutocracy, oligarchy, corporate aristocracy, corporatocracy--whatever you want to call it). It has become everything that the creators of America despised about the Royalists (Of course, some of the leaders of the Revolution were wealthy and had wealthy people's interests in mind (see A People's History of the United States), but I'm damn sure that Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson would be furious with the corporate government that exists today). Bring back a dose of that irrepressible American spirit--that revolutionary spirit. The "rendezvous with destiny" awaits.