Loss of Trust Quotes
No Presient, before and perhaps since. was so effective with the press and the media. Yet Roosevelt did not use a basic technique of modern political presidential press techniques—that of always being “on message” and repeating the same point over and over. TR thought that would lead to loss of credibility and perhaps he was right because no one trusts what a modern President says today to the degree that TR was believed by both the press and the public.
General Hunter had been assigned as the Commanding General of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas which Hunter thought was a “banishment”. Lincoln, who was generally very gentle and courteous when disciplining subordinates, could be quite firm also, but always reasonably courteous.