Macon Phillips Quotes
All the tools you used to use—whether that’s chat or Google Docs or wi-fi—are no longer available. It’s like a time machine back to sort of a pre-social-media, postcomputer moment, where you just work on email.
George W. Bush and his White House Staff were of a generation that only thiought of a personal computer as a Word Processing and e-mailing machine. In the 8 years of the Bush Presidency, there were dramatic and dynamic breagthouhs on PCs and digital technology. But they percieved no need for anything more, The younger, much more technoplogically savy Obama and his staff were shocked that the headquarters of the most important leader in the world was so far behind the times in their digital capability, The White House Website that was being used was that developed in teh first Clinton Administration which then was the state of the art. But more than 15 years later, it was ancient and decrepid. The Obama Team leaped into the future with a very sophisticated new website whcih was the backbone of Obama's highly sophisticated digital communications strategy.
Macon Phillips, Quoted in "The White House Survival Guide", Time, January 23, 2017
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George W. Bush and his White House Staff were of a generation that only thiought of a personal computer as a Word Processing and e-mailing machine. In the 8 years of the Bush Presidency, there were dramatic and dynamic breagthouhs on PCs and digital technology. But they percieved no need for anything more, The younger, much more technoplogically savy Obama and his staff were shocked that the headquarters of the most important leader in the world was so far behind the times in their digital capability, The White House Website that was being used was that developed in teh first Clinton Administration which then was the state of the art. But more than 15 years later, it was ancient and decrepid. The Obama Team leaped into the future with a very sophisticated new website whcih was the backbone of Obama's highly sophisticated digital communications strategy.
This is one of the more candid and honest description of the reality of a new Presidential Administration making the transition from the old administration.
Nixon campaign manager and Attorney General-designate John As a result of this kind of experience with a transitioning President, a more formal procedure was developed.
Jordan had worked on the Carter transition team in 1976. When Carter was later defeated in 1980, it was suggested that Jordan should assist with the transition to the Reagan forces since he had transition experience:
This was a very clever play on a slogan that Las Vegas was using at the time to promote tourism and gambeling: “What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas”
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The Professor just connected a telegraph wire to the balloon tether rope and the observer/telegraph operator in the balloon could describe in real time the position, deployment, weapons and strength of the Confederates. The information was picked up by the Union officers on the ground and a few seconds later by Washington where Abraham Lincoln, a brilliant innovator in the use of telegraph technology, had a telegraph office right next to the White House. Observational intelligence was in real time reaching the Commander in Chief and the war planners not unlike the functionality of a modern observational drone. The graphic is a photo of that balloon preparing for launch.
Mead argues that this is a trend that has been operating over many administrations. It could be argued that modern communications and the media have been significant drivers of this phenomenon along with the desire for White House staff to have as much control as they can obtain. Before modern communications, an Ambassador, or a Secretary of Commerce had to make decisions within the philosophical and political umbrella of the President’s general policies. They could not communicate immediately with the President or his staff. But once everyone in the government was connected, the President’s staff could make every important decision. However, with the many different major issues and emergencies of the modern era, the small group in the What House have not been able to deal with them all and the bureaucracy has been instructed not to decide big things without going through the White House. See {642086}.
Despite the insults and harsh language that Dinald Trump and Barak Obama thre at each other in the Presidential Campaign of 2016, when Trump had narrowly beaten Hillary Clinton, Obama gaciously met with him and gave him advice, which Trimp uncharacteristically, grasciously accepted, In ab interview with Time reporters Obama explained his thinking.
This statement was made more than 1/2 a year after he was pushed out of his job of WHite House Cheif of Stafff by President Donald Trump
- Born: June 29, 1978
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Computer Technologist & Government Operative
Macon Phillips is a U.S. public servant who served as the Coordinator of the United States Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs from 2013 to 2017. He reported to Rick Stengel, the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Phillips is the former White House Director of New Media, in which capacity he had oversight responsibility for WhiteHouse.gov. Phillips' work on WhiteHouse.gov closely coordinated with internet operations at the Democratic National Committee, which has responsibility for administration of the BarackObama.com domain and website. At precisely 12:00 p.m.ET during the inauguration of Barack Obama, Phillips oversaw the conversion of Whitehouse.gov, the official website of the President of the United States. At 12:01 p.m., he posted the site's first blog entry, titled: Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov.
