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Remembering Theodore Sorensen
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, died Sunday at 82 from complications from a stroke he suffered a week ago. Sorensen drafted Kennedy's 1961 inaugural speech, in which the president famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Sorensen is also credited with drafting a letter from Kennedy to Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev in 1962 that helped resolve the Cuban missile crisis. The memories from friends and other admirers have begun to pour in. Here's The Atlantic's James Fallows, former ...
Who Wrote Palin's Speech?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyYesterday, John McCain's campaign manager told reporters that their camp was busy tinkering with Sarah Palin's big speech so that it would be less "masculine." The speech, you see, had been written before she'd been picked, for a man. But who, exactly, wrote it? The Obama campaign claims it was Bush speechwriter, Matthew Scully. Clearly, Palin added her two cents, biographical details, and delivered the whole thing with conviction and flair. And, indeed, most of the speeches we hear from politicians have been largely ghost-written. But given the fact that the bulk of Palin's was prepared in ...
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