Michelle Obama Coached On Teleprompter Too
There's one less thing President Obama has over his wife Michelle: mastery of the Teleprompter.
Speech coach Christine Jahnke, author of the new book The Well-Spoken Woman, reveals that she taught the first lady how to use a Teleprompter in advance of her pitch in 2009 to the Olympic Committee in Denmark to pick Chicago for the 2016 Olympics, won by Rio de Janeiro.
"She is obviously a fine speaker," Jahnke says. "But the Olympic speech was on a Teleprompter, and she was less familiar with that technique." [Read: Michelle Obama's Africa Trip Cost More than $424,142.]
Jahnke says Obama rehearsed four times and made time to do so even amid important meetings. "A well-spoken woman takes a speech seriously and prepares," Jahnke says.
Like no president before, President Obama is a huge fan of the Teleprompter, using it at both formal and social events. So it's natural for the rest of the family to follow suit.
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