Henry Stanton Quotes
The description was elaborate, the Senator himself suggesting some of the nicer touches, and every line of it was written and on its way to New York before Mr. Seward had uttered a word in the Senate Chamber.
See {584897} for a quotation from the speech. Spinning and giving advance copies of speeches to the press is not the invention of the 20th century media-savvy political handlers. It was a standard practice even in the 19th century.
Henry Stanton, 1805-1887, Journalist, Description of an article that he had written for the New York Tribune on William H. Seward’s Senate Speech, January 29, 1860
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The first printed appearance of the world occurred in a Washington Post article by Dan Batlz, May 26, 1996.
The news coverage cycle of a Presidential campaign had become so accelerated that candidates commonly gave copies of major addresses of press before the address was delivered so that the spinners could get to work and frame the issues of the speech so that it will be reported in a way favorable to them. The Clinton-Gore campaign first came up with a weapon to neutralize this pre-release of speeches. Specifically, they read copies of the speech and instead of waiting until the speech was given to rebut it, they issued the rebuttal before the speech was given so that their spinners could have an equal shot at influencing the reporting of the speech when it would be given. Gore coined the word, ‘prebuttal’ to describe the new technique. Soon everyone was issuing prebuttals to addresses whenever they were released in advanced—and prebuttals began to be issued outside of the campaigns and applied to any speech that any officeholder would give. The common sequence was: Address Release & Spin, Prebuttal & Spin, Speech Delivery, Rebuttal, Spin by both sides.
When asked if he could speak for an hour to assist with a filibuster:
Ryan told the national audience that President Obama had come to a factory in his district that as rumored to be closed. Obama had told the workers that the Federal government could assist and keep the factory open for many years. Then as Ryan explained, the factory closed the following year. He gave this as an example of Obama not keeping his word. However what Ryan did not say was that Obama had made the speech at the factory when he was a candidate for the Presidency, and then the factory was closed while George W. Bush was President and by the time he took office, the closure was done and the factory machines gone. And when Obama took office, our national economy was within days of complete bank and finance collapse. Obama saved most of the banks and then the American automobile industry. To suggest that Obama could have or should have done something for the factory that closed was shockingly misleading. It would have been a minor issue if some party hack had lied and made the same accusation. But this was the Vice Presidential Candidate whose acceptance speech was assumedly vetted by the Presidential Candidate’s staff. That is why the quotation was so memorable.
The Grammar Curmudgeon
impeachment of President Andrew Johnson Garfield was then a Congressman
Statement about issue management in the Internet age.
Referring to White House statements:
Roosevelt himself was a great orator and there were many who thought those same terms might apply to him.
The extensive disputation of modern democratic legislatures many believe might by improved by adhering more to this principle. The last sentence would be good advice for the modern democratic politician. This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.
Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. This is another of his classic gaffs.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
Madison was the first Presidential Speech Writer.
- Born: June 27, 1805
- Died: January 14, 1887
- Nationality:
- Profession: Lawyer, Reformer, Journalist
Henry Brewster Stanton was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician. His writing was published in the New York Tribune, the New York Sun, and William Lloyd Garrison's Anti-Slavery Standard and The Liberator. He was elected to the New York State Senate in 1850 and 1851. His wife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a world renowned leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
