Tag Archives: Robert Schlesinger

Prompted by Robert Schlesinger

As Vinca mentioned below, Robert Schlesinger offered his opinion about President Obama’s use of the teleprompter – and given Schlesinger’s thorough knowledge of White House speech history, his opinion should be given weight. But I don’t think he’s entirely right.
The crux of Schlesinger’s argument is that there’s no difference between delivering a speech using prepared [...]

Friday Round-Up

A few notes from the week:
Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a terrific speech to a Joint Session of Congress this week.   Among the many lovely sections, a moving tribute to our shared sacrifice in the darkest days of the last century:
Cemetery after cemetery across Europe honours the memory of American soldiers, resting [...]