https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/magazine/what-americans-wrote-to-obama.html
This article explained in detail how the president Obama received the 10 letters he read each day. The people working in the mailroom read each one individually and then the leader picks which one the president reads. It was very well written and have all readers a sense of what it’s actually like to work in the White House mail room. It explained the very specific way that letters are hand picked and put into a specific order for the president to read. The article said: “Oh, the order is critical,” she said. It was like putting a book of poems together, or a photo album. “The order in which you see stories affects the way you perceive each one,” she said. “We sometimes use the term ‘sucker punch’ in this office, which is brutal, but. ... ” “Ballsy” was the word one staff member used to describe Reeves. She could put three Dakota Access Pipeline pleas back to back. She could set the president up with a letter from someone gushing about the Affordable Care Act and then another from someone on the margin whose life was made worse because of it. “It’s not: ‘You failed,’ ” she said. “It’s more, ‘Solutions don’t solve things for everyone.” It explained how certain letters stuck with the president, enough so that he framed one. “I asked him if there were letters that stuck with him, and he talked about the mail he got from wounded soldiers and veterans, particularly those who had PTSD. He thought back to other letters. He said the good ones weren’t necessarily the dramatic ones.” Overall it was really well written and put the reader through the process.
It was really interesting to get a glimpse into what Obama’s life was life. It was very shocking to find out how many letters the president gets vs how many he reads. Obama was a great president, so it was cool to be able to read some of the letters that were sent to him. It really peaked my interest, and I very much enjoyed reading this article.
- 10 Letters were chosen for Obama to read every day
- The letters were hand picked and read in the order Obama got them
- The letters greatly affected Obama. So much so that he even had one framed
- The White House Mail Room is under constant work. Millions of letters arrive their every year
- No two letters are from the same issue when the president reads the 10
This article explained in detail how the president Obama received the 10 letters he read each day. The people working in the mailroom read each one individually and then the leader picks which one the president reads. It was very well written and have all readers a sense of what it’s actually like to work in the White House mail room. It explained the very specific way that letters are hand picked and put into a specific order for the president to read. The article said: “Oh, the order is critical,” she said. It was like putting a book of poems together, or a photo album. “The order in which you see stories affects the way you perceive each one,” she said. “We sometimes use the term ‘sucker punch’ in this office, which is brutal, but. ... ” “Ballsy” was the word one staff member used to describe Reeves. She could put three Dakota Access Pipeline pleas back to back. She could set the president up with a letter from someone gushing about the Affordable Care Act and then another from someone on the margin whose life was made worse because of it. “It’s not: ‘You failed,’ ” she said. “It’s more, ‘Solutions don’t solve things for everyone.” It explained how certain letters stuck with the president, enough so that he framed one. “I asked him if there were letters that stuck with him, and he talked about the mail he got from wounded soldiers and veterans, particularly those who had PTSD. He thought back to other letters. He said the good ones weren’t necessarily the dramatic ones.” Overall it was really well written and put the reader through the process.
It was really interesting to get a glimpse into what Obama’s life was life. It was very shocking to find out how many letters the president gets vs how many he reads. Obama was a great president, so it was cool to be able to read some of the letters that were sent to him. It really peaked my interest, and I very much enjoyed reading this article.