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United, speechwriters stand
You mess around with a speechwriter, you mess around with all speechwriters. Luckily, we’re nonviolent; but we can play awfully hard to get.
Why Presidents Give Speeches Anyway (Part Three of Three)
So we can stipulate that Ezra Klein is a magificent grasper of the obvious and his main source is a master at locating and debunking intellectual imbeciles in the field …
Cicero Speechwriting Awards winners announced
Unlikely speech takes Grand Award in prestigious competition for speakers and writers.
Why Presidents Give Speeches Anyway (Part Two of Three)
Yesterday we established that New Yorker writer Ezra Klein’s several-thousand-word observation that individual presidential speeches don’t change the world was little more than a magnificent grasp of the obvious. Today, …
What do speechwriters have in common?
At the 2012 Ragan Speechwriters and Executive Communicators Conference last week, speechwriters remembered their roots.
WATCH: Speechwriters March on Washington
If you missed the 2012 Ragan Speechwriters and Executive Communicators Conference–and some of the events surrounding the show–here’s what it felt like to be there.
Why Presidents Give Speeches Anyway (Part One of Three)
In his March 19 essay in The New Yorker, writer Ezra Klein asks, “Who listens to a president?” To paraphrase a president, the answer depends on what the meaning of …
ENCORE! “Choosing the Gun”
In the grand-prize winning speech of the 2012 Cicero Speechwriting Awards, a defense minister defends weapons “as an instrument of peace and stability.”
Speechwriters to march on Washington (I’m serious)
Before I boom off to Washington for the Ragan Speechwriting and Executive Communication Conference this week, I want to note that for the first time, there will be a march …