| Eulogizing Vidal was to eulogize the now long-gone epoch he typified. |
| He was a man of many firsts: the first black author to gain a copyright, the first black bishop in the United States, and the first black person to eulogize an American president. |
| Other poets include Kalapi, Kant, and especially Nanalal, who experimented in free verse and was the first poet to eulogize Gandhi. |
| However, he did more than eulogize the fallen heroes before their comrades and families and loved ones. |
| Until now, it has been the custom for the oldest surviving Kennedy brother to eulogize his fallen sibling. |
| When Roosevelt died suddenly of a stroke on April 12, 1945, Jackson returned to the Department of Justice to eulogize his friend. |
