Tito and the public
The public appearances of the president were seriously prepared. Individual ministries or other institutions made written proposals, and the commission in his cabinet, which we called the "marshal", would clarify everything. Tito gave speeches in public relatively often, but always on a specific occasion, sticking to the topic, always presenting the position of the president of the country. He would rarely deviate from the pre-written text. Those performances never turned into some sort of chat with the audience, no matter who he was talking to. I got the impression that he hated reading the speeches they wrote for him, even though he would look at them first and approve them
