Surely, Annie would give Obama’s stimulus package an approving “leapin’ lizards!” And won’t student-loan reform help her friends back at the orphanage? Grace Farrell, like Warren Buffett’s secretary, would certainly want a lower tax rate than her billionaire boss, not to mention equal pay as the butler, Mr. With all the campaign talk about Scranton, Janesville, unemployment, and income inequality, it’s tempting to imagine what the characters would make of the current candidates. (Another song that didn’t make the movie: “New Deal for Christmas,” which name-drops Secretary of State Cordell Hull.)
to sing “Tomorrow”? After commanding his Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, to join in, the President declares: “I’ve decided that if my Administration’s going to be anything, it’s going to be optimistic about the future of this country!” Then, in a “Forrest Gump”-esque turn, Annie inadvertently inspires the New Deal.
Remember that famous trip to the White House when Annie gets F.D.R.