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In reply to the discussion: I was wrong about FDR holding 600 press conferences. [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)60. The problem is that the president doesn't seem to have
Any principles that he is willing to stand by. This sequester is an excellent example. Did he really not know when it was enacted that something like the faa thing would happen, and that they would bitch about it? Was whining about it the best he could do? If he believed in it, then he should see it through and make his case.
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A prepared speech is somewhat different from answering pointed questions.
MannyGoldstein
Apr 2013
#10
Shame on you, Manny. If I had been at one of FDR's conferences, here is what I would've asked:
RufusTFirefly
May 2013
#27
FDR's press conferences were different than the ones by the President nowadays.
Cooley Hurd
May 2013
#54