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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is looking for a speechwriter to “draft speeches, speech briefings, and op-eds for the president and CEO and other senior executives; write other materials including weekly columns, blog …
After Tesla founder Elon Musk's erratic behavior and his emotional interview last week with The New York Times, the company's stock dropped—of course. To explain why, I returned to this piece I wrote …
For presidential speechwriters, things are tough all over. To the consternation of his communication handlers, the president often departs from his prepared remarks. President Rodrigo Duterte, that is, of the …
If you search Google Images for “speechwriter,” you’d think presidential speechwriters are the only kind. We recently did so, and the screen shot reveals that of the 20 frames on the …
Nearly four years ago, a close friend shared some fascinating material: overlooked research on the brain and behavior. It captured my attention as a speechwriter for the groundbreaking things it …
What would Mark Twain have thought of Donald Trump? We will never know for sure, but we can perhaps get a general idea from what Twain said about the presidency …
You think your boss asks a lot of the speechwriter? President Lyndon Johnson’s schedule “was so fierce that even many young men could not keep up,” according to a piece this …
The Great Communicator was nothing short of a public-speaking acrobat, as we learn from this yarn from President Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson (credited for “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”). …
Policies come and go, but speeches last forever. In the Obama White House, Ben Rhodes started out as a speechwriter and became a policy guy. Not necessarily a promotion, he …
Georgetown University seeks a director of presidential correspondence to “communicate with internal and external constituencies, to include members of the Board of Directors, donors, parents, and alumni.” The AFL-CIO needs a …