Archibald MacLeish: Librarian of Congress
!["Archibald became Librarian of Congress and created the United States Poet Laureate. He wrote: 'My father [Andrew MacLeish] came from a very old country in the north and far away [Scotland], and he belonged to an old strange race, the race older than any other. He did not talk of his country but he sang bits of old songs with words that he said no one could understand anymore.'"](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/8805/0f8ab360-171b-11f1-b3b7-d903e3024f58-vdZPv0x.lg@2x.jpg)
"Archibald became Librarian of Congress and created the United States Poet Laureate. He wrote: 'My father [Andrew MacLeish] came from a very old country in the north and far away [Scotland], and he belonged to an old strange race, the race older than any other. He did not talk of his country but he sang bits of old songs with words that he said no one could understand anymore.'"