David Axelrod: “I think that would go down as the glass is half full interpretation on Rick's part and I admired the effort.”

An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not…

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.