Not a great speech—but a good one
Victory Speech by President-Elect Joseph Biden, November 7, 2020, Wilmington DE Joe Biden could not rely on custom to smooth his way through a victory speech. It was not safe …
Victory Speech by President-Elect Joseph Biden, November 7, 2020, Wilmington DE Joe Biden could not rely on custom to smooth his way through a victory speech. It was not safe …
Speech by Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden, August 31, 2020, Pittsburgh PA One reason it is never wise to label a speech the biggest of someone’s life is that bigness …
Acceptance Speech by President Donald Trump, August 27, 2020. Republican National Convention, Fourth Night. Last night in a speech that ran well over an hour President Trump made his argument …
Speech by Vice President Mike Pence, August 26, 2020. Ft. McHenry, Baltimore MD. Republican National Convention, Third Night. Last night Vice-President Pence spread the word about Trump, Biden, and recent …
Speeches by Nikki Haley, Donald Trump Jr., and Tim Scott August 24, 2020. Republican National Convention, First Night. Imagine a convention where two of the most prominent first night speakers …
Joe Biden Acceptance Speech, August 20, 2020. Democratic National Convention, Fourth Night. After thirty-two years of trying Joe Biden accepted at last his party’s nomination for president. He did so …
And so it came to pass in a procession of speeches steeped in historical consciousness that, one hundred years and one day after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which …
Speech by Jill Biden, August 18, 2020. Democratic National Convention, Second Night. As a format, the convention speech for a would-be First Lady generally confines the speechwriter and speaker to …
After a long montage of video remarks, roundtables, songs, and super cuts that felt like the ton of previews and ads one sees at movie theaters, the first virtual political …
Political eulogies rethicken and refasten community ties frayed by the untimely deaths of its people. We have no eulogies yet for the victims of COVID19. The socially distanced funeral for …