Hello, my name is John Meacham, author and historian.

I'm proud to share our brand new limited documentary podcast series,

Hope Through History, in partnership with Cadence 13 and the History Network.

In these very trying and uncertain times,

just know that we can learn through history

as we work through our current crisis together.

I want to share this trailer of hope through history that's now available everywhere

you listen to podcasts.

This is a day of national consecration,

and I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect I will address them with a candor and a decision

with the present situation of our people in

so first of all let me assert my firm belief

that the only thing we have to say is fear itself.

Today, tomorrow, and for an indefinite number of days to follow. The world faces a

terrifying crisis. It's natural to feel as if nothing like this has ever

happened. And for many of us that's probably true.

But our country has been through hard times before.

The influenza of 1918, the Great Depression, the Second World War, polio, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

And in each case, our national character has been tested.

Let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out.

Many months of sacrifice and self-discipline lie ahead, months in which both

our patients and our will will be tested. But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.

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