Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness.
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

