Jay Carney Quotes
It is a simple reality that even as he [President Barack Obama] is a candidate for reelection, he continues to be President of the United States, and the demands of the job restrict his capacity in some instances to focus entirely on the campaign. He simply cannot do that. So he and we carefully allocate his time working with the campaign.
The role of a sitting president is always raised at election time. This is typical of the answer that the White House Press Secretary provides. See {583496} for another example.
Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary (Democrat), Response to a reporter's question, White House Press Briefing, August 7, 2012
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The role of a sitting president is always raised at election time. This is typical of the answer that the White House Press Secretary provides. See {583495} for another example.
Polk never took a vacation while in the office. When he left, he was physically exhausted and in poor health and died 3 months later.
It was, but each subsequent Presidential election grew much commercial, more sophisticated, and more expensive.
This was Dewey’s New York State Gubernatorial Campaign. It appears to be the first TV talkathon where a candidate took call in questions from the voters.
Hoover had to cope with the Great Depression. His administration was hapless in improving the economy as he was in a philosophical bind in that he was opposed in principle to doing almost anything that would help the situation. He just did not believe that government should engage in the activities that were necessary. His 1932 campaign had him trying to explain his thinking as to why government should not do much. Stimson and many other Republicans disagreed as so many Americans were suffering so badly. However, most publicly supported their party’s President even as many had private misgivings. Hoover was thrown out of office in an FDR landslide win. His policies government activist policies and programs improved the economy but it tool almost a decade to recover.
He was the first Jewish White House Chief of Staff serving Ronald Reagan.
He was a speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson who wrote many of his own speeches but so many are required a modern president and candidate must have speechwriters.
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- Born: May 22, 1965
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Public Servant
James Ferguson Carney is a former White House press secretary to President Barack Obama. He served as press secretary from February 2011 through June 2014. For the first two years of Obama's presidency, Carney was director of communications for Vice President Joe Biden. Prior to his government service, Carney worked for 20 years at Time Magazine, and was the magazine's Washington bureau chief from 2005 to 2008. As a Washington-based reporter, Carney appeared frequently on various political talk shows, including This Week with George Stephanopoulos for ABC News.
