“Draft speechwriter”: A dangerous delineation

When we talk about a speakerโ€”Martin Luther King, sayโ€”who we donโ€™t want to think of as having had a speechwriter, we now find it necessary to use a new term to describe it: โ€œdraft speechwriter.โ€

As in Dr. Clarence B. Jones, who is described by Wikipedia as MLKโ€™s โ€œformer personal counsel, advisor, draft speechwriter and close friend.โ€

Arenโ€™t all speechwriters โ€œdraft speechwritersโ€ in the sense that they write a draft of a speech and the speaker makes it his or her own?

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