Obama is clearly using the press like no other President. He's given 3 press conferences this week alone and he's not even sworn in. Open and transparent seems to be the message. Letting the American people know what is going on and how he plans to work things out. That's leadership. That's change.
How do we know? Compare.
Bush held just 17 solo news conferences during his first four years in office, the lowest total of any first term president since Dwight Eisenhower formally launched on-the-record briefings with reporters back in 1953. By comparison, President Bill Clinton held 44 solo news conferences during his first four years in office, Bush 41 held 84, and President Ronald Reagan held 26, according to statistics compiled by Martha Joynt Kumar of Towson University.
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