Today, most politicians have at least some help preparing their words.Įverett had been the main attraction, but Lincoln’s speech started picking up steam afterward and seemed to “go viral” in the manner of its day. Lincoln was able to get straight to the point and deliver a punchy speech in part because he came after Edward Everett’s marathon presentation about the war, explains James Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln Collection in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. We still remember Kennedy’s delivery of lines like, “Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.”
Kennedy, who was assassinated 100 years and three days after the delivery of the Gettysburg Address. The modern trend is for leaders to “play the folksy card,” Baron said, portraying themselves as ordinary Joes and Janes who are exactly like you in every way – except for the fact that they are hoping to achieve a position of immense power.īaron said the last president with an “oratorial” style – on the whole – was probably John F. “If you did that today, people would think of you as somehow flowery and old-fashioned and … why are you doing that?” Northern and transplant states appeared to rank higher. These charts show the number of times phrases from the Gettysburg Address were mentioned on Facebook over one week beginning November 6, and the top five states for each.
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