{"id":9694,"date":"2013-09-14T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9694"},"modified":"2013-09-14T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T15:56:23","slug":"where-american-presidents-give-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/where-american-presidents-give-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Where American Presidents Give Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091413_0532_WhereAmeric1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Presidents normally give televised speeches either from the Oval Office, or \u2013 as is often the case with the current President \u2013 in the cross hall. Brendan Greeley talked about some of the considerations that go into determining where the speech should be given:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presidents normally deliver bad news from the Oval Office. This is to indicate that they&#8217;re hard at work in the office, trying to resolve the issue.<\/li>\n<li>When a President gives a speech from the office, the cameras usually turn on to find the President sitting there. They were waiting for you.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast when giving speeches from the cross hall the cameras turn on to an empty hallway \u2013 and then the President walks out to the cameras. You are waiting for the President.<\/li>\n<li>The cross hall also allows the President to speak from a podium with a microphone rather than a mike at the chest. This allows viewers to catch background noises such as the room tone and the echo of the hall. It creates the atmosphere of a public appearance.<\/li>\n<li>President Obama, in particular, seems to like to present from the cross hall \u2013 possibly because he likes to gesticulate while he speaks and that&#8217;s difficult to do while sitting at a desk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about Presidents who preferred set pieces, the first ever televised address, and what Sorkin might have to do with all of this over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-09-11\/why-obama-doesnt-give-speeches-from-the-oval-office\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-09-11\/why-obama-doesnt-give-speeches-from-the-oval-office\">Businessweek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Presidents normally give televised speeches either from the Oval Office, or \u2013 as is often the case with the current President \u2013 in the cross hall. Brendan Greeley talked about some of the considerations that go into determining where the speech should be given: Presidents normally deliver bad news from the Oval Office. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091413_0532_WhereAmeric1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9697,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9694\/revisions\/9697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}