I watched a short video this morning of Mr. Rogers appealing to a Washington committee for $20 million in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is absolutely spell-binding. What I love about Mr. Rogers is his clarity of emotion and his cadence. His speech is slow, clear, and utterly captivating. He exudes genuine kindness and gratitude. He says more with less. A favorite quote:

“If we .. can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger — much more dramatic — than showing something of gunfire.”