Chairman of the Board: Commander-in-Chief

My darling America,

You have always been my kind of country. This could only happen to a guy like me--and only happen in a country like this, a country so full of good people. So may I say to each of you most gratefully, thank you from the bottom of my heart for picking me--one with little political experience--to this highly esteemed position as your president.

I can see that look in your eyes that you're wondering how I got here--and don't worry about it, so am I! But when I get up here, we'll just fly starry-eyed out where the air is clear!

I'd also like to thank my wife, Nancy, and the whole Pack--Dean, you and the boys have made this whole thing a lot easier.

I promise I'll do whatever I can to make sure all of you can make it here too--since if I can make it here, I'll make it anywhere. And so can all of you.

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king--and see where I am now. And that's all thanks to you, my dears. I'd like to think I'll be able to lead as well as I've led the Paramount girls--if we can be a strong a voice as the bobby-soxers there, we'll have no problem against rival nations.

But I'm not blinded to fear or reality. Sometimes other nations will get their kick stomping on our dreams. Sometimes they'll beat us down. But that's life. We've gotta pick ourselves up and get back in the race!

And my dear Americans, when the end is near, when we face the final curtain, when one day other nations try to challenge us, try to shoot us down, try to tell us we're doing it wrong, we will have but one thing to say:

We did it our way.

And dear Americans, the best is yet to come.

~Frank Sinatra, January 20th, 1957