Speechwriting

Ask not why words matter, ask when they mattered most

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits). How JFK came up wi...

Ooh, ooh, look at me!

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Entertainment


Robert Schlesinger

What a week. There were book parties. Then there was the Daily Show on Wednesday night discussing White House Ghostsx-- quite the charge. I blogged...

RIP Bob Hartmann, "SOB"

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

I regret never having met Robert Hartmann, the close aide to Gerald Ford who died last week -- he was one of the classic, colorful characters in White...

"Just Words", "Just Words" - Is that the Obama Story?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

If Obama's words are somebody else's, and do not spring from his own inspirational story, then they become as irrelevant and hollow as a Super Bowl Budweiser feel-good commercial.

Finding Obama's voice

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

The reason JFK and Ted Sorensen are the benchmark for speechwriting is that Sorensen worked for Kennedy for eight years before they entered the White House.


 

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