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Interesting interview. But, Schlesinger plugged the name of his book more times than any other interviewee I have ever heard. Shameless, and insulting to listeners. This one anyway.

while i found today's show on "white house ghosts" generally fascinating, i disagree with schlesinger's contention that the obama speech on race will be repeated and remembered into the future, and it's precisely because i believe it fails at every level to meet that standard, that (1) it was neither a great nor original nor historic speech, and (2) that all the media fawning over the speech is the more telling commentary about the very peculiar and troubling loss of objectivism in the media's coverage of this democratic race, a phenomenon i find on par with the loss of objectivism during the run up to the iraq war, and with the same detrimental effects in misinforming the public about the key facts and information they need to make an informed decision.

Rove has some nerve criticizing Obama's race speech. His boss can't even pronounce words greater than 2 syllables without mangling it let alone write a coherent speech.

I recently had to do a report on the 1960 election effects on media, and Nixon's "checkers" speed and how it endeared him to White working voters, before the debate of course. How can the lessons of the speech be applied to this year's election?

I can't remember her name but she is the speech writer who says, Tell 'em what you're gonna tell them; tell 'em; then, tell 'em what you've just told 'em"! She wrote speeches for the first George Bush.

not exactly a presidential speech but RFK's eulogy of JFK