You can also add it's four people that look good on camera for instance Richard Nixon won the radio debate against Kennedy

But lost the TV debate to Kennedy

Also to be a political leader you need to have a massive ego and self-confidence which to various degrees was also true

In other periods

With democracy it weakens parliamentarius because the more people have a say leads to more people spoiling the stew

It's one of the reasons nobody takes responsibility because there is nobody responsible

The because for responsibility is in too many people hands

By the way I do get the sense that you are conservative not in the American fashion but in the English tradition fashion