Mr Rogers, you are an inspiration!

This is a video clip of Mr Rogers petitioning the Senate for $20 million dollars to save his television show.

My favorite part is when he says, "This is what I give, I give an expression of care every day to each child. To help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, 'You've made
this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and managable that we will have done a great service for mental
health.

I think it's much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger, much more dramatic than showing something of gun fire. I'm constantly concerned about what our children are seeing. And for fifteen years I have tried in this country and Canada to present what I feel is a meaningful expression of care."