Editing Teleprompter (section)

===Presidential (or glass) teleprompters===
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| image1            = President Ronald Reagan saluting the crowd at the Republican National Convention.jpg
| alt1              = A man, wearing a suit, saluting while standing between two transparent, glass teleprompters
| caption1          = President [[Ronald Reagan]] between two reflective teleprompters in the [[Caesars Superdome|Louisiana Superdome]] during the [[1988 Republican National Convention]]
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| caption2          = President [[Barack Obama]] in 2012, behind two teleprompters, whose monitors are embedded in the floor of the stage. Teleprompters were an issue in the [[2012 United States presidential election]] as Republicans criticized Obama for using teleprompters.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rucker |first1=Philip |title=Republicans mock Obama's teleprompter use |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-mock-obamas-teleprompter-use/2011/10/18/gIQA6hEivL_story.html |access-date=September 1, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019174855/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-mock-obamas-teleprompter-use/2011/10/18/gIQA6hEivL_story.html |archive-date=October 19, 2011}}</ref>
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Glass teleprompters were first used at the [[1956 Democratic National Convention]]. The inventor of the teleprompter, Hubert Schlafly, explained that he wanted to create a less obtrusive teleprompting system than the ones used at the time. He said, "We developed a 'one-way mirror' device we called the ''Speech View'' system... The prompter, hidden in the base, reflected the text on the glass to the speaker while the audience looked through the glass without being aware of the text. Two such prompters, one on the right and one on the left of the speaker allowed him to switch from one to the other and appear to address the entire audience".<ref name="TTM">Laurie Brown, ''The Teleprompter Manual'' (Pleasant Ridge, Michigan: The Difference Press, 2006), pp. 5–6. {{ISBN|0-9767761-0-3}}.</ref>

Schlafly's company then created a speaker's lectern that included two synchronized glass teleprompters and a range of technological innovations including air conditioning and an adjustable-height speaker's platform. The success of the system led the company to develop a new model for use on TV cameras, with the glass placed directly in front of the lens. The camera "looked through the glass; the performer looked directly at the TV audience and was able to read the text word for word. This device now has worldwide use".<ref name="TTM"/>

Typically, a screen on either side of the speaker shows mirrored text from upward-facing floor monitors at the base of a stand supporting a [[one-way mirror]] at the top, angled down towards the screen. The speaker sees the text on the screen reflected in the mirror, while the audience sees what looks like a sheet of tinted glass on each side of the speaker.

Schlafly's glass teleprompters were also used for the [[1956 Republican National Convention]], and at both parties' conventions from then on. In 1964, glass teleprompters were used by [[Robert F. Kennedy]], at the time the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]], who served in both the [[Presidency of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] and early [[Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] Administrations (1961–1964), to deliver his convention speech.<ref name="Getty"/>