LONG before Bill Clinton was elected President, Little Rock was known for a much bleaker past.
The outlook for the labour market may look bleaker, but that at least suggests that the increasingly panicky talk about inflation has been overdone.
Now, however, in bleaker times, he hopes to present a very different face to the electorate, and one that will win back disgruntled Labour voters.
The winter of 1946-47 was one of the coldest of the century. Postwar Britain was bleaker even than wartime, and he had always suffered from a bad chest.
But even bleaker is the stark warning in the report that "the pathway that the world is on today exceeds the worst-case scenario described in this report".
He tends to paint a bleaker picture of the nation and apologize for past behaviors in foreign affairs.