John F. Kennedy's successful handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis was a turning point in his presidency. Now, President Obama is looking for a similar reversal of fortune tonight when he makes his first-ever Oval Office speech about the BP oil spill. "He needs to do the opposite of what Bush did with that Katrina speech," said Andrew Mendelson, associate professor of journalism at Temple's School of Communication and Theater, referring to a speech that the then-president delivered in front of a New Orleans church. Frequent visits by Obama to the region, minus a jacket and tie and eating local seafood, as he did yesterday, are a start, he said.