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A top speechwriter to Kamala Harris is leaving the White House, drawing attention to the vice president’s messaging challenges over the past year and new efforts to right the ship. Harris’ director of speechwriting Kate Childs Graham will leave in late February, a White House official confirmed. “Kate is leaving …

Kamala Harris loses ANOTHER staff member: Editor becomes EIGHTH VP of staff to leave since disastrous border trip in June, with exodus showing no signs of abating Kate Childs Graham is expected to step down from the VP’s office at the end of the month She served as director of …

On Monday January 24, US President Joe Biden mocked a Fox News reporter and made a profanity-laden remark when asked about inflation. The incident took place at a White House event after Biden gave a prepared speech on tackling inflation and addressing supply chain issues. According to reports, the event …

The House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot has subpoenaed two aides to Donald Trump Jr. and a former White House staffer who helped craft the speech that former President Donald Trump spoke at his “Stop the Steal” rally shortly before the violence erupted. The panel said aides Andrew …

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurgency has issued subpoenas for documents and testimony from two associates of Donald Trump Jr. and a former White House speechwriter who allegedly helped write former President Donald Trump’s speech on the day of the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814. …

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization have asked a federal judge to bar the office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James from investigating them or order her to recuse himself from any investigation of the real estate company. The twice-impeached ex-president sued Ms James …

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas on Tuesday for three other aides to former President Donald Trump, including Ross Worthington, the speechwriter who helped writing the speech in which Trump warned his supporters that they would lose their country …

SUMMERLAND, CA – One of the giants of political journalism decided to hang up at 88. But anyone who knows Lou Cannon doesn’t think for a moment that retirement means more time on the beach or crawling on all fours with one of his seven great-grandchildren. Cannon has reached Chapter …

Michael Gerson, who wrote the speech for former President George W. Bush, predicted a “nightmare” scenario if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election and returns to the White House. Trump has “strengthened his identification with the seditious forces he unleashed on Jan.6” and “embraced ever more absurd and malicious conspiracy …

In a series of tweets on June 8, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist trained at Harvard to The Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Real estate listings should include the prevalence of gun ownership within a 50 mile radius and the number of annual mass shootings in the area. It’s time to change …

June 17, 2021 The year of the plague. By Lawrence Wright. Knopf; 336 pages; $ 28. Allen Lane; £ 20 IN APRIL 2020 Lawrence Wright published a novel, “The End of October”, about a global pandemic and the political collapse and massive deaths it causes in America. Health officials struggle …

US President-elect Donald Trump and his son Donald Jr. arrive for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City, watched by Allen Weisselberg (C), CFO of The Trump. (AFP / Getty Images) Trump biographer Tim O’Brien says Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg will backfire on former president Donald …

Lukashenko has been in power longer than Pratasevich is alive. Why is the Belarusian government so obsessed with this young journalist that it would go so far? This incident confirms that the Lukashenko regime is desperately afraid of its own people and of the political opposition in the country. They …

A former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter called Wednesday’s raid on Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment a “tragic third act” for his legal career. John Avlon, a former member of Giuliani’s staff, said he was “shocked” when he discovered that federal investigators executed a search warrant against Giuliani and seized several electronic devices from …

Sign up for the Swampscott Reporter newsletter. “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl described the first time she saw a career as a journalist as an eye-opening experience. The Swampscott native was 25 and worked as a researcher for New York City Mayor John Lindsay’s speechwriter. The speech-writing team’s office resided …

Donald Trump’s biographer denounced the former president over his bizarre Easter message about “CRAZY on the radical left,” calling Mr. Trump “very needy” in his post-presidency phase. Writer Michael D’Antonio, who wrote Mr. Trump’s biography Never enough, appeared on CNN on Sunday and gave a stinging record of the former …

A biographer writing a book about Meghan Markle believes it is “likely” that she will get into politics, as speculation grows that she is preparing for a possible presidential candidacy for 2024. Investigative reporter Tom Bower has reportedly signed a six-figure deal to write an unauthorized biography of the Duchess …

CHICAGO, February 24, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Thomas ricke was Senior Vice President of Kraft Foods before becoming unemployable, suicidal and nearly homeless. Business jets, country clubs, and White House tours have been replaced with locked down psychiatric wards and electroshock treatment. The newly released book, Lucky to be …

Kamala Harris made history in January when she became the first woman and person of Asian descent to serve as Vice President of the United States. Author and journalist Dan Morain traces Vice President Kamala Harris’ path to the White House in his new book titled Kamala Style: An American …

Grace tells the story of ten amazing days in America in june 2015, when President Obama and Keenan co-composed critical speeches in response to a whirlwind of dramatic moments too unlikely for a full season of “The West Wing”: The Gruesome Charleston massacre at the church, where nine black worshipers …

The speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama write his moving speech in memory of the victims of the Charleston Church massacre will publish a memoir on his work in the White House. Sugar23 Books, a brand of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media, has acquired “Grace: A President, His Speechwriter, …

The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. Cody Keenan’s memoir is set around the time a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners in South Carolina. “Grace: A President, His Speechwriter, and Ten …

Cody Keenan, who spent 14 years writing speeches for former President Barack Obama, said he was “preemptively frustrated” by President Joe Biden’s calls for unity because he doesn’t believe the Party Republican will never be ready to work with Democrats. Mr Keenan told Axios that Biden’s White House message had …

Jocelyn Quinn was on her way to class in January 2020 when she received a LinkedIn message from a professor at Georgetown University asking if she was interested in a creative writing class. The professor told Quinn that if she managed to write 12,000 words and get her editor’s interest, …

New US President Joe Biden will deliver his inaugural address on Wednesday outlining his administration’s agenda. The speech-writing team that is helping shape the project is led by an American Indian, Vinay Reddy, who served as a speechwriter for the Biden-Harris campaign and who was previously a speechwriter when Biden …

Cholleti Vinay Reddy Image Credit: Twitter Hyderabad: When the whole world awaits the inaugural address of new US President Joe Biden, residents of a remote village in Telangana will cherish the moment because his speechwriter has his roots here. The villagers of Pothireddypeta in the Karimnagar district, about 200 km …

Indian-American Vinay Reddy, the speechwriter for US President-elect Joe Biden, has roots in a remote village in Telangana’s Karimnagar district. Narayana Reddy’s family hails from Pothireddypeta village in Huzurabad. (India today) The sleepy village of Pothireddypeta rejoices in the international success of their “bidda” (son). Reddy’s international fame has made …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday appointed his longtime business associate, Indo-American Vinay Reddy, as speechwriter and fellow community member Gautam Raghavan, who previously served at the House Blanche, as deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel. The appointment of Reddy and Raghavan comes with the …

A prominent Jewish group on Wednesday criticized the White House for appointing a speechwriter that the White House fired in 2018 to a committee that monitors Holocaust sites for attending a rally with white nationalists. Speechwriter Darren Beattie was appointed this week to the Commission for the Preservation of American …

A former speechwriter who was fired from the White House in 2018 for attending a conference with white supremacists has been placed on a committee meant to preserve Holocaust-related sites across Europe. Darren Beattie has been appointed to the Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad, according to a …

(JTA) – President Donald Trump has appointed Darren Beattie, a former White House speechwriter who attended a white supremacist conference, to a government commission that monitors Holocaust sites. Beattie, who tag on twitter as a “proud Jew,” attended a HL Mencken Club conference in 2016. According to the Southern Poverty …

Darren Beattie, former White House speechwriter. (Darren Beattie via Twitter) WASHINGTON — A former speechwriter fired from the White House in 2018 for attending a conference that white supremacists also attended has been named to a commission tasked with preserving Holocaust-related sites across Europe. Former speechwriter Darren Beattie will join …

American biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D’Antonio spent a lot of time with US President Donald Trump while writing two books about him. His most recent book, “High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump,” a chronicle of the President’s impeachment, was released in October 2020. D’Antonio …

Some attendees at Joe Biden’s mayoralty included a former White House speechwriter during the Obama / Biden administration and the wife of a former Democratic candidate from Pennsylvania. Biden was interviewed by two attendees with ties to Democratic officials during his mayoralty Thursday night on ABC at the same time …

Biden defends the economic agenda in town hall Former Obama economic adviser Robert Wolf and FreedomWorks economist Stephen Moore break down Joe Biden’s economic agendas against President Trump on ‘Fox & Friends.’ Two of the ABC mayoral interviewees featuring Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Thursday had ties to prominent …

ABC remains silent amid mounting criticism from its town hall with Joe Biden after two of the attendees who questioned the Democratic nominee were identified as an Obama speechwriter and the wife of a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat . One of the interlocutors was Nathan Osburn, who worked for the public …

WASHINGTON–(COMMERCIAL THREAD) – Former Senate Speaker Brian Forest’s speechwriter announced the public launch of Arboreal Communications, a communications company specializing in executive messaging, writing and positioning. The company has previously been selected to help major global brands, government leaders, business associations and nonprofits reach key audiences on a range of …

Guy Snodgrass, who has been a key aide to former Defense Secretary James Mattis, said that while he was surprised Mattis recently released a rare public criticism of President Trump, he also believes that he was eager to speak. “Frankly, I think there is one element of Mattis that just …

Ken Kurson has had a fascinating career filled with experiences in some of the country’s leading newspapers including Esquire and the Commercial Observer. (Newswire.net – May 31, 2020) – Ken Kurson has had a fascinating career filled with experiences in some of the country’s leading newspapers including Squire and the …

A screenshot of David Litt’s Twitter account from May 23, 2020 shows then-US President Barack Obama’s former speechwriter tweeting his post “Coronavirus crisis in the United States is a failure of democracy” with a cover photo. (Xinhua) “The American republic is a government of fewer people, by fewer people, for …

Get all the latest coronavirus news and more delivered to your inbox daily. Register here. Liberal journalist Hendrik Hertzberg courted the controversy on Sunday by denigrating President Trump and openly questioning him in a Tweeter: “Time for a military coup?” “ After a request for comment, the left-wing New Yorker …

Sarah Hurwitz’s “Here All Along” is what she calls “a love letter to Judaism”. Featured photo by Violet Markelou Sarah Hurwitz, a former speechwriter for the Obamas, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore, has given speeches in Michigan that have nothing to do with politics. Hurwitz spoke at Temple Israel in …

The unnamed senior administration official who published an op-ed and a book detailing resistance within Trump’s White House was listed as a former Pentagon aide in a report released Monday. Guy Snodgrass, a retired Navy commander turned editor for former Defense Secretary James Mattis, was to be the author of …

Peter Robinson had just turned 30 when, as Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter in 1987, he was tasked with writing what would become one of the world’s most famous presidential speeches. “I spent six years in the Reagan White House and wrote tens of thousands of words, and no one remembers anything …

About six years ago, in the aftermath of a romantic breakup, White House speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz embarked on the most unlikely of relationships: She began to seriously engage in Judaism. And how is this relationship going? According to Hurwitz’s own account, in “Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a …

Sarah Hurwitz, Michelle Obama’s former speechwriter, has revealed that she has been made aware of FLOTUS ‘current plagiarism of a job aimed at Ms. Obama. The alleged scam came in a 2016 speech in which Melania addressed the Republican National Convention. The phrases used in the speech were almost identical …

Michelle obamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaThe Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Alibaba – Gears begin to change in Congress on stuck Biden agendaThe speechwriter confirmed that the former first lady wrote the now famous line “When they go low, we go high” from her 2016 speech at the 2016 Democratic …

When Sarah Hurwitz worked as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and later as editor-in-chief for Michelle Obama, she was often considered a good source of knowledge about Judaism. Except Hurwitz wasn’t. She had grown up nominally reformed. And after his bat mitzvah, Hurwitz felt his relationship with Judaism …

Sarah Hurwitz, who says she was “a little done with Judaism” after her reformed bat mitzvah at age 13, admits that five years ago, if she had seen a book called “Here Everything along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, And A Deeper Connection To Life – In Judaism (After Finally Choosing To …

Joe bidenJoe BidenTexas announces an election audit in four counties after Trump asked Pennsylvania AG to prosecute GOP subpoenas in an election inquiry.His presidential campaign hired a longtime Democratic speechwriter who worked with former Presidents Clinton and Obama the day after a rocky performance in the first Democratic primary debate …

One of President Donald Trump’s main allies in Congress announced on Friday that he had hired a speechwriter who left the White House last year after it was announced he had spoken at the ‘a conference attended by white nationalists. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tweeted that he had brought on …

Click to enlarge Ever wanted (metaphorically) to choose the brain of someone who worked in the White House? Well now is your chance as David Litt, former Presidential Speechwriter and staff member of the Obama Administration, has written a book about his time in the White House and will speak …

Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign announced on Tuesday that it had hired Denver-based liberal journalist David Sirota as senior communications advisor and speechwriter, from more than a dozen senior national officials added to the organization of democrats. It was then that Twitter erupted and the charges began to fly. An …

One of the best-known voices in American politics captivated audiences on Friday at President de Westmont’s breakfast. More than 700 people attended the 14th annual event at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort to hear from Peggy Noonan, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and acclaimed presidential speechwriter for Presidents Ronald Reagan and …

Raymond K. Price Jr., a cerebral and pipe-smoking speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon who helped write the first and last words of his presidency, his inaugural speeches and his resignation speech, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 88 years old. His former lawyer, Zenon B. Masnyj, said Mr Price …

Peggy Noonan – Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal columnist, speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, and author of five New York Times best-selling books – will deliver the keynote address and receive an honorary degree at the 174th launch ceremony from the University of Notre Dame in May 19. “Peggy Noonan …

With the passing of President George HW Bush, Americans around the world are remembering his legacy. “Take a moment and be sad because part of our history has passed,” said Rochester’s Tom Frisk. With the news of President George HW Bush passing late on Friday night, it was the topic …

Former Obama White House press secretary Josh Earnest and former speechwriter Cody Keenan (Weinberg ’02) shared their experiences in the White House and reflected on the future of the Democratic Party during the a round table on Monday. Earnest now works as director of communications for United Airlines, and Keenan …

Cody Keenan, speechwriter to former President Barack Obama and Visiting Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, and Josh Earnest, the former Obama press secretary, will speak on the Evanston campus on Monday, November 12. The event, hosted by Northwestern College Democrats, Associated Student Government (ASG) and the Medill School …

It took only 80 minutes after inflammatory racist emails started flying for the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, to shut down an email distribution list linking hundreds of top conservatives . The emails that sparked the controversy began to ricochet at noon on Tuesday, in response to a call …

A speechwriter for President Donald Trump who attended a conference attended by white nationalists has left the White House. CNN’s KFile contacted the White House last week about Darren Beattie, a political aide and speechwriter, who was on the list of speeches at the 2016 HL Mencken club conference. The …

CNN’s KFile contacted the White House last week about Darren Beattie, a political aide and speechwriter, who was on the list of speeches at the 2016 HL Mencken club conference. The White House, which asked CNN to put the story on hold for several days last week, declined to say …

A White House speechwriter for President Donald Trump was fired last week after revelations he spoke at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists, according to three people familiar with the decision who were not allowed to speak in public. Darren Beattie, who was a guest instructor at Duke University …

A Donald Trump speechwriter was fired after finding out he attended a conference frequently attended by white nationalists. The White House has confirmed that Darren Beattie’s contract was terminated after it was discovered he spoke at the HL Mencken Club conference in 2016 alongside anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow. “Mr. Beattie …

As wedding season approaches, many bridesmaids and groomsmen find themselves polishing their speeches – and who better than a former White House speechwriter to tell them how to pronounce an address flawless ? Sarah Hurwitz, 40, worked in the White House from 2009 to 2017, first as a speechwriter for …

Richard N. Goodwin, the author, playwright, political adviser and presidential speechwriter whose role in the Congressional Quiz investigation of the late 1950s inspired the Oscar-nominated film quiz show, died peacefully on May 20 after a brief battle with cancer at his home in Concord, Massachusetts. He was 86 years old. …

Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped write historic speeches such as Robert Kennedy’s “Ripples of Hope” and LBJ’s Rights Speeches Civics and Great Society, died Sunday evening at age 86. Goodwin, husband of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, …

Report from New York – Richard N. Goodwin, Contributor, Speechwriter and Liberal Force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped write historic speeches such as Robert Kennedy’s “Ripples of Hope” and LBJ’s Speeches on Civil Rights and Grande Société, died Sunday evening at the age of 86. Goodwin, husband …

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit E-mail There are three types of research papers that journalists most commonly rely on in their work: white papers, working papers, and peer-reviewed journal articles. How are they different? And which one is the best? Below we explain each one, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. As …

schirinrangnick As a freshman at Yale, David Litt ’08 bought a pair of Hulk patterned pajamas. A few years later, he found himself wearing the same pajamas on an Air Force One flight to Germany. On Thursday Litt, who wrote a New York Times bestselling memoir and four White House …

David Litt, former White House speechwriter and best-selling author, will speak at Yale on Thursday, April 5 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Litt’s talk, co-sponsored by the Yale College Office of Student Affairs’ Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series, will take place at 6 p.m. in the Branford College Common Room, …

First Lady Michelle Obama joins students for a Bollywood dance clinic in the White House State Dining Room on November 5, 2013. | Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy Text size: A- A + Civil rights laws do not explicitly prohibit caste discrimination. This was not seen as a …

How to write a joke for the President of the United States? How do you come up with something that looks perfectly sharp but not too cruel, silly but not silly? How not to denigrate the highest office in the country with – sniff – comedy? They were all questions …

Another Trump administration official resigns amid domestic violence charges, just days after White House Personnel Secretary Rob Porter resigned amid similar allegations. Elise Viebeck of the Washington Post reports that David Sorensen, speechwriter, is resigning. His ex-wife, Jessica Corbett, accused Sorensen of physical and psychological abuse during their two-and-a-half-year marriage. …

WASHINGTON – David Sorensen, a White House speechwriter, resigned Friday after detailed reporting of accusations from a former wife who said he abused her during their marriage. His resignation came two days after Rob Porter, the secretary of personnel at the White House, submitted his own resignation after his two …

In 2011, when I was 24, I was hired as a Speechwriter in the White House. My first thought (after “shit!”) Was that someone must have made a mistake. It’s not that I thought I had no talent. It’s just that I knew there were over 300 million people in …

JTA – He was only 24 years old, but speechwriter David Litt had already become President Obama’s go-to man for anything considered “Kishke-related”. In Litt’s lingo, that meant he wrote the president’s speeches that aimed to connect with American Jews at the gut level – things like holiday and birthday …

As Barack Obama’s speechwriter, Cody Keenan helped write Trump’s now infamous public skewer in 2011, a humiliation some see as motivating Mr Trump to enter politics. “Do I feel responsible? No. And besides, he deserved it. He’s yet another guy who started his political career with racist innuendo that the …

Washington is filled with political agents who inflate their importance and take credit for themselves, often where it isn’t. David Litt, who landed a dream job as a speechwriter for the Obama administration at just 24, is not that kind of agent. His new book, Thank you Obama: my hope, …

Washington is filled with political operatives who inflate their importance and take credit for themselves, often where it may not be. David Litt, who landed a dream job as a speechwriter for the Obama administration at just 24, is not that kind of agent. His new book, “Thanks Obama: My …

Donald Trump’s press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City was considered the most breathtaking to date. The US president managed to plug his cellar while asserting that the responsibility for the violence in Charlottesville should be shared by both parties. Mr. Trump’s extraordinary conference, in …

A former President Obama speechwriter mocked President Trump’s press conference on Tuesday in which he repeated his claim that “both sides” are responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., On Saturday. Cody Keenan, who worked for Obama from 2007 to 2017, joked on Twitter that a bad presidential press conference …

President Trump’s speech in Poland this week brought back memories for James Fallows. The current national correspondent of Atlantic was a 20-something speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. And the tone of Carter’s speech in Poland in 1977 was very different from Trump’s. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump’s speech in Warsaw …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Lissa Muscatine, co-owner of Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, is finally ready to share her story of working with Hillary Clinton. Politics & Prose owner and former White House speechwriter Lissa Muscatine interviews Hillary Clinton in Washington in 2014 (Melina Mara / The Washington Post) Her upcoming book, titled …

Harry J. Middleton, who spent the last two years of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency as a speechwriter but had a more lasting impact on Johnson’s legacy as director of his presidential library for more than three decades, died Jan. 20 in Austin, Texas. He was 95 years old. The death, …

Three former staff of President Barack Obama have started a business to counter Donald Trump with a podcast and updates that bypass mainstream media to reach their audiences directly. Their site is called “Crooked Media,” a nod to Trump’s slander of the press. One of the founders is former Obama …

West wing describes speech writing as a distinctive skill that requires Herculean effort at breakneck speed. But, as the TV show suggests, the position can also be particularly rewarding, giving the writer a front row seat in history. Alan Stone, who worked on President Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign in …

Former President Barack Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau took to Twitter to voice his concerns. | AP Photo By BRENT GRIFFITHS 9/16/2016 12:25 PM EDT Update 9/16/2016 3:17 PM EDT 2016-09-16T03: 17-0400 Former President Barack Obama’s speechwriter Jon Favreau on Friday accused Ari Fleischer of knowingly lying about Hillary Clinton’s role …

There was a lot of speculation, when this controversy persisted, that this would be its downfall. Do you think this is the case?It certainly affected his ranking in the race, probably more than any other comment he made. It was not an attack on Hillary Clinton. It was an attack …

On September 4, 2012, Stacey Lihn walked across the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her husband, Caleb, followed her along with their two young daughters, including 2-year-old Zoe. “Like so many moms with sick children, I shed tears and could breathe easier knowing that we …

Jarrett Hill sat in a California Starbucks on Monday night, watching Melania Trump’s speech live at the Republican National Convention. In the midst of Trump’s remarks, Hill realized that his words were very familiar. “I was like, ‘I really know where I heard that before,'” he told me in a …

Speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz with Michelle Obama on a flight from Joint Base Andrews, Md. To Santa Fe, NM, where the First Lady gave an opening speech last month. (Chuck Kennedy / The White House) When Sarah Hurwitz sits down in front of her laptop, she puts on her noise-canceling headphones …

Shannon Beckham Shannon Beckham spent the past summer as an intern on the White House speechwriting team, digging up facts, anecdotes and historical references to sprinkle into speeches President Obama gave in the whole world. Eight steps to the White House A look at how Duke senior Shannon Beckham got …

One of the hottest topics in Washington right now is the hot water the New York Times Magazine finds itself in. The cauldron involves a May 5 profile of an Obama administration official. He got fundamental facts wrong and cast ethical slanders against prominent journalists and political consultants, who were …

Funny Or Die has hired former Obama administration senior presidential speechwriter David Litt to spearhead its Washington, DC shenanigans. Litt, who also served as special assistant to President Barack Obama, is now the editor of the Political City Office. “We are thrilled to have David join the Funny Or Die …

LOS ANGELES — David Litt, known as President Obama’s chief joke writer, is joining humor website and studio Funny or Die as he seeks to poke fun even more at American politics. Mr. Litt, who quit his previous job last month, will become head writer and producer for Operation Funny …

When I was hired to write speeches for a senator a few years ago, I knew a former White House speechwriter Reagan. His only advice: “You’ll think you were hired for your talent with words. That’s not what you’re here for, it’s a management job. You have to keep all …

William B. Ewald Jr., who used his experience as an aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower to write several books that highlighted his leadership and determination, died March 16 at his home in Greenwich, Wash. Connecticut. He was 89 years old. The cause was respiratory failure, his son William B. …

WASHINGTON — One night last week, Cody Keenan, the White House speechwriter whom President Obama dubbed “Hemingway,” knew he needed help. Mr. Keenan had spent 15 days locked in a hotel room in Honolulu while the president vacationed nearby, and seven more in a windowless office in the basement of …

Their relationship has always been made up of words: written, spoken, unspoken. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Lissa Muscatine have spent the past 20 years in the meticulous and infuriating quest to find exactly the right words at exactly the right time. As the first lady’s speechwriter, Muscatine voiced Clinton’s hopes …

Brock Brower, a magazine journalist best known for his profiles as White House occupiers and wannabes of the 1960s and 1970s, and who had a second, third and fourth career as a novelist, television writer and speechwriter for the United States Attorney General, died April 16 in Santa Barbara, California, …

Earlier this fall, Jon Lovett ditched his three-year gig as President Obama’s speechwriter to try to make it big on TV. Lovett, 29, raised in New York, wasted no time. He marries the two worlds with the red-hot 1600 Pennsa White House comedy that Lovett sold to NBC with The …