http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=78611

[accessed May 9, 2013].

16. John McCain, "Remarks in Columbus, Ohio," October 31, 2008, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=84678

[accessed May 9, 2013].

17. Kennedy received about 37% of the Protestant vote in 1960, so low that it nearly outweighed the 82% of Catholics that he won. According to the 2008 election day exit poll, Obama won 43% of whites, a better showing than some white Democrats have posted among this racial group in past presidential elections. For example, John Kerry (D) garnered only 41% of whites in his contest with President Bush in 2004. Incidentally, it is a measure of how much the religious factor has faded that Obama, a Protestant, secured 54% of the Catholic vote in 2008, but just 45% of the Protestant vote. See Larry J. Sabato, ed., The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House (New York: Longman, 2010), 6568; and Donald R. Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle, The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 72.

18. There are also quotations from FDR, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Jon Ward, "Obama Replaces Bush Oval Office Rug with New Quote-Emblazoned Carpet," Daily Caller, August 8, 2010,

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/31/obamareplaces-bush-oval-office-rug-with-new-quote-emblazoned-carpet/

[accessed March 29, 2012].

19. E-mail from Ted Sorensen, October 22, 2010.

20. See Barack Obama, "Inaugural Address," January 20, 2009, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44

[accessed July 19, 2012].

21. See "Joe Scarborough: State Of The Union Speech 'Boring All Around,' " Huffington Post,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/joe-scarborough-state-of-union-boring_n_814064.html

[accessed July 19, 2012], and Colby Hall, "Bill O'Reilly Criticizes Obama's Iraq War Speech for Being Boring," Mediaite, August 31, 2010,

http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill-oreilly-criticizes-obamas-iraq-war-speech-for-being-boring/

[accessed July 19, 2012].

22. The reason for the lack of Kennedy citations cannot be the Obama speechwriters. In 2009 Obama appointed then twenty-seven-year-old Jon Favreau as director of speechwriting. Favreau cited the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., as providing some of his inspiration, and said he had done a good deal of reading about them. Ashley Parker, "What Would Obama Say?" New York Times, January 20, 2008. Another Obama speechwriter, Adam Frankel, assisted JFK aide Ted Sorensen on his memoirs, and Frankel's paternal grandfather, Stanley Frankel, wrote speeches for Adlai Stevenson, Robert Kennedy, and George McGovern. Peter Nicholas, "The Brain Behind Obama's Speeches," Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2010.

23. David Jackson, "Obama Celebrates Birthday of White House Situation Room," USA Today, May 13, 2011,

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/obamacelebrates-birthday-of-white-house-situation-room/1

[accessed July 19, 2012]; Jason Djang, "Inside the Situation Room," White House blog, December 18, 2009,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/18/inside-situation-room

[accessed May 9, 2012]; "Inside the Situation Room: A Guided Tour," Rock Center with Brian Williams, May 4, 2012,

http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/04/11539949-inside-the-situation-room-a-guided-tourTlite

[accessed May 9, 2012].

24. David Jackson, "Caroline Kennedy Likely Next Ambassador to Japan," USA Today, April 1, 2013,

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/04/01/obama-kennedy-japan-ambassador/2041675/

[accessed April 1, 2013].

25. Barack Obama, "Remarks at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York City," September 22, 2009, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=86657

[accessed May 31, 2012].

26. See Barack Obama, "Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session with Young African Leaders," August 3, 2010, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88275

[accessed May 31, 2012]; "Remarks in Santiago, Chile," March 21, 2011, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley,

The American Presidency Project,