Posts Tagged Nancy Reagan

Obama Ends up apologizing After Friday’s Press Conference remarks

Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Humor, Media Training, Politics, Presentation Skills Training, Public Speaking Skills, Uncategorized on November 9, 2008

Following up from Friday, here was the headline on the Drudge Report:

 Obama apologizes to Nancy Reagan for ‘seance’ crack…

As I predicted, Obama’s mentioning of Nancy Reagan’s astrological proclivities during last week’s press conference turned into a minor blunder. Once the sensitivity police took notice, it was only a matter of time before Obama was forced to apologize to the defuse the situation.

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Obama Makes Mild Blunder at First News Conference

Posted by TJ Walker in Government & Politics, Humor, Media Training, Public Speaking Skills on November 7, 2008

When President-elect Barack Obama was asked if he had spoken to many presidents before, he replied this way.

“I have spoken to all of them who are living,” he says. “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances,” he says.

Obama was making a reference to Nancy Reagan’s well-known reliance on astrologers during her husband’s terms in office.

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