What is known about the usage of electronic mail by US Presidents for official business?
Do you seriously think it’s possible for anyone running anything, much less an entire country, these days to do so without use of e-mail?
Absolutely.
Maybe they dictate; I daresay that they aren’t permitted to just troll on the internet when off duty.
Look at the ridiculous fuss over Mrs Clinton’s email usage.
You’re aware of the fact that unusual things make the news, right?
If “no email in the government” were the general rule, why bother writing an article about how this government official doesn’t use email?
All I’m looking for is a single mention (cite) of a sitting US President ever having written an email.
Obama emails me all the time asking for money. Especially in 2012.
[perhaps it was his campaign, but they pretended it was from him.]
They keep on the down-low about it. That link strongly implies he personally sends official emails, but maybe even those are done by an assistant.
Bill Clinton never has and to this day still doesn’t use email (actually, he did, twice). I’m also guessing that Ronald Reagan and also George Bush (the elder) didn’t do so. I vaguely recall (no cite, might be apocryphal) reading a story many years ago that George W. Bush made an conscious decision at the beginning of his presidency not to use email in the White House. Obama of course is tech geek, he loved his blackberry and he certainly would be the type to use email extensively. I wonder, though, if he really does.
Obama most likely just emails or texts his wife, kids and maybe a couple of top advisors. The conversations are probably like, “Come here now!”, “I’m running late, sorry” and “What you want for dinner?”.
Some of Obama’s e-mail got hacked, so apparently it does exist.
There was an interview with him a few years back where he read an email from one of the other parents at his kids school. So he apparently uses it for family stuff anyways.
I think most highlevel stuff in the US gov’t is still done through reports and memos. Though I imagine those are probably increasingly electronically distributed, so the difference between them and email is probably getting kind of academic.
Plus it seems like everyone has at least one crazy uncle that emails them racist anti-Obama screeds, so presumably Obama does to.
I vaguely remember a story about GW Bush being advised not to use email. I believe it was for legal purposes. He possibly used it, but I think Presidents may use email for only the most mundane business/family issues.
Wait, the CEO quoted above says that “emails cannot replace the spoken word,” so why does he suggest sending a text message as a suitable replacement?
That gives me an awesome mental image of Obama taking a few minutes to relax by trolling FreeRepublic. 