Word: presidental
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The image of a easygoing Al Gore carousing on a stage with Tommy Lee Jones is not one that fits with current media portrayals of the vice president. Many of Gore's Harvard friends, especially Somerby, have publicly castigated the media for portraying Gore as an elitist.
Gore begins with the notion that presidents since Eisenhower have used television--not newspapers--to communicate to the nation. The thesis attempts to answer why this change took place so rapidly. He considers how one can best master the news medium, what structural factors influence news coverage of the president...
Gore concludes that "[t]he regularization and intensification of the President's personal communication with these two constituencies--the public at home and the audience abroad--promise to complicate his relations with" Congress and his own staff. "Consequently," Gore writes, "a key factor in this trend is the increasing importance...
The week before Australia staged a referendum on whether to remove the Queen as their head of state (many former British colonies still recognize her as such). The proposal was rejected, but only because people were wary of the alternative offered: a president chosen not by the people but by...
"The administration is going to come through," he said. "I think that [Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine] is deeply concerned about this issue."