It is hard to be a leader today. In the era of the internet, social media, and open communication, everything a leaders says or does is videotaped, recorded, repeated, researched, and there.
This is true for all of us, but writ large for people in the public eye like governors, senators, the president, etc. In the corporate sector, CEOs are extremely well rewarded but still walk a tightrobe.
See Oscar Munoz and United.
Every word of President Trump's firing of James Comey of the FBI was analyzed and parsed. Had Roosevelt's actions during World War II been thus analyzed, the long term effect would have been far different.
Every comment an official makes is remembered far into the future. Ten, twenty, or thirty years mean nothing in this age.
Many have reluctance to serve in high profile positions. And understandably so. It takes a lot of fortitude to withstand the publicity. On the one hand high profile figures have to aware of the world around them, On the other hand, they have to turn off the noise about themselves.
While show business personalities may say, I don't care what they write about me, so long as they write about me, that may be harder to endure when you are in the public square.
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