The Speechwriter’s Life: Harrison B. Kinney
Oct 12, 2016
The year is 1960, and the place is New York City’s Lobster Restaurant on West 45th Street. Two freelance writers are talking shop over a meal. One mentions to the …
The Speechwriter’s Life: Cheryl Palmer Normile
Dec 25, 2016
As far as she can tell, Cheryl Normile was the first female speechwriter on the Secretary’s staff at the US Department of Agriculture. She started at USDA in the early …
The permanence of being memorable
May 16, 2018
Originally published in the Chicago Tribune on Father's Day, 2003. My father died in 2009. My daugher is now 14. —DM *** The poet W.H. Auden was once asked by a college student, …
HOW CAN WE GET BACK IN THE MAJORITY
Jul 10, 2009
Address by NEWT GINGRICH, former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Delivered to the House/Senate GOP Fundraising Dinner, Washington D.C., June 8, 2009.
“We Must Exceed Our Own Expectations”
Feb 16, 2010
Candidate for president of the Philippines asks, “What is in us that … prohibits our growth as a people and as a country?”
“Don’t change yourself … Come home to yourself”
May 17, 2010
John Jacob Scherer IV, best-selling author and founder of the Scherer Leadership Center; commencement address, Roanoke College, Roanoke, Va., May 1, 2010
WATCH: “The Presidency … Has Become Symbolic of Overreaching”
Sep 19, 2010
Address by Mike Pence, Indiana Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives; delivered at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 20, 2010
The Debate Americans Deserve
Apr 04, 2011
“A plan to give our children a debt-free nation … to keep American exceptional”
That United America
Aug 15, 2012
“If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny.”
We, the Authors of the next great chapter in our American Story
Jan 31, 2013
In the first State of the Union address of his second term, President Obama laid out his agenda.