The Presidential Stagecraft of Calming American Anxiety

President Barack Obama was about to board Marine One for a round of last-minute campaigning in Wisconsin to buck-up jittery Democrats, but before escaping Washington he had to address a different kind of emotion: Fear. Standing on the White House lawn on Tuesday, Obama reminded Americans-once again-that the U.S. remained largely safe from Ebola, a virus, he noted, that has yet to claim a single American life.

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