The late silent generation and early Boomers grew up with Greatest Generation humor. “I get no respect.” Johnny Carson tempo. Glad handing, quick asides. “That’s okay, easier than explaining it.” The fact that the president performs something everyone has a vague memory of but no longer exists has been a huge part of his second term aura in a way it wasn’t there in the first. Nostalgia for an era that’s coming to an end very soon.