Listening to Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chats - he made only 30 in 12 years - became a national pastime. Presidents could be heard on phonograph records - quite good copies exist of Teddy Roosevelt speaking in a clear and precise voice - and then came radio. Things changed at the turn of the 20th century.” “Lincoln would write a letter to a newspaper and it would be reprinted word for word and then pamphletized. “The bully pulpit, the platform a politician has to mobilize citizens, has changed,” Goodwin replied. “Why can’t he command the bully pulpit the way Teddy Roosevelt did?” “People ask why can’t Obama be more like Lyndon Johnson?” said Axelrod, director of the Institute of Politics at the university. She sat in a hushed meeting room Monday at the University of Chicago’s hushed Alumni House, where David Axelrod asked her unhushed questions.
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