On AI for Speechwriting: Not So Fast (or a Little Too Late?)

Dec 16, 2025

Jim Reische, special advisor for executive communications to the president of Williams College and co-founder of the Higher Education Leadership Communication Council, writes: The Professional Speechwriters Association recently published a …

Cinderella Man

Mar 23, 2026

On a phone call Thursday morning, I tried to impress a former White House speechwriter by mentioning casually that I would be attending the insider-famous Gridiron Dinner Saturday night—invited by …

The Speech Doctor’s Life: Doug Gamble

Aug 05, 2015

Doug Gamble has been injecting what he calls “applause lines, word pictures and anything that gives zip and color” into clients’ speeches for more than three decades. “My job is …

May Good Government Win In Europe

Nov 30, 2012

“It is up to ourselves whether or not we are to live in well-ordered circumstances,” says Nobel Committee chairman in accepting Nobel Peace Price on EU’s behalf.

Not a great speech—but a good one

Nov 09, 2020

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 …

You have to learn to be good ancestors to the future

Apr 21, 2021

From a 2006 Stanford University commencement address by Vartan Gregorian, who died this week at 87. Hat tip to speechwriter Harry Kruglik for passing it along. —DM Today information floods …

Euphemism, for Good and Ill

Jul 08, 2021

In my book An Effort to Understand, I tell the story of how I once told my five-year-old daughter that in our family, we don’t say passed away—we say died. …

The Speechwriter’s Life: Gary Delsohn

Mar 03, 2015

From 2006 to 2009, veteran journalist Gary Delsohn shouldered a dream assignment for many speechwriters—he served as chief scribe to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Perhaps it’s thanks to his background …

Good speechwriters are good guessers

Nov 05, 2015

Peggy Noonan has a new memoir out, and thus a reason to revisit her time as a speechwriter to President Reagan. In an appearance on “CBS This Morning,” Noonan told …