Who is Robert Gibbs - White House Press Secretary

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Robert Gibbs: White House Press Secretary

Learn more about Robert Gibbs, longtime advisor to President Barack Obama and the current White House Press Secretary.  From the early days of the Obama presidential campaign to his daily press briefings at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Robert Gibbs has traveled a long road with President Barack Obama.  His special insights, communication skills, and rapport with the press as well as the President make Robert Gibbs a unique character.

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Robert Gibbs Jokes About Sarah Palin's Notes On Hand

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    reepete Jan 5, 2010 @ 12:48 pm | delete
    has anyone counted the number of times Mr. Gibbs, paid to communicate, utters the meaningless "uh" during his briefings?
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    OhMe Jun 4, 2009 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    I really didn't know much about him so appreciated this lens. Thank you.
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    stephen Mar 9, 2009 @ 11:36 pm | delete
    If this man who supposed to be speaker say's Ahh, one more time I, think I, will go outside and scream my fricking head off, he uses it more than his total content he can't breath without using Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

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A History Of White House Press Secretaries 

All the Presidents' Spokesmen: Spinning the News--White House Press Secretaries from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush

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This book explains how White House press secretaries have for decades developed the art of shaping the news in their daily press briefings to reporters in favor of the president-the highly sophisticated, complex communications strategy popularly known as spin.

How The White House Communicates 

Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation

Amazon Price: $11.35 (as of 02/16/2012)Buy Now

Political scientists are rarely able to study presidents from inside the White House while presidents are governing, campaigning, and delivering thousands of speeches. It's even rarer to find one who manages to get officials such as political adviser Karl Rove or presidential counselor Dan Bartlett to discuss their strategies while those strategies are under construction. But that is exactly what Martha Joynt Kumar pulls off in her fascinating new book, which draws on her first-hand reporting, interviewing, and original scholarship to produce analyses of the media and communications operations of the past four administrations, including chapters on George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

Kumar describes how today's White House communications and media operations can be at once in flux and remarkably stable over time. She describes how the presidential Press Office that was once manned by a single presidential advisor evolved into a multilayered communications machine that employs hundreds of people, what modern presidents seek to accomplish through their operations, and how presidents measure what they get for their considerable efforts.

Laced throughout with in-depth statistics, historical insights, and you-are-there interviews with key White House staffers and journalists, this indispensable and comprehensive dissection of presidential communications operations will be key reading for scholars of the White House researching the presidency, political communications, journalism, and any other discipline where how and when one speaks is at least as important as what one says.

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