It was in front of a crowded audience at the Ace Hotel in May that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti demanded an embarrassing confession from former Obama speechwriter turned political podcaster Jon Lovett: The Man of 34-year-old did not vote in the LA municipal election held on May 16. To …
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Reagan speechwriter thinks Trump is making big speeches – foreign policy
Thirty years ago today, at the Brandenburg Gate in divided Berlin, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most iconic lines in a lifetime of speech. “Sir. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Peter Robinson, then Reagan’s 30-year-old special assistant, wrote this speech. In it, Reagan expressed his solidarity with the …
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STANFORD, Calif .– June 12 marked the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s most subversive presidential speech, a speech delivered in a divided German capital that has become a point of passionate communion between the United States and Europe. The anniversary has a tangy flavor, coming at a time when the …
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