[Robert J. Clawson]

Thanks for the links to the Post, Julie and Sam.

It looks like good politics to me. Don't know how much Obama had to do with it, in that a Congressional committee apparently made the choice, but it sure looks like his handiwork.

I think that the choice, when it occurs, has to be political. Clinton chose Maya Angelou, whom we have mocked as a poet. JFK chose a prime time New England Poet. It appear to work that way: Obama's neighbor who apparently listened to MLK's cadences when she was one year old. It's a good story.

Couple years ago I had to write a poem for a wedding to be attended by many D.C. and internationally connected doers and it was hard work. I don't envy Elizabeth the task, but it's a great honor and I hope she writes a splendid piece.

I'm mellowing.

Bob