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Peter Robinson on the Art of Writing Ronald Reagan’s Speeches

The Secrets of Statecraft

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Those Were the Kennedy Writers and the Ragan Writers.

William sapphire founded a club for presidential speech writers during the eighties. The kennedy writers and the regan writers both loved their president, he says. George h w. Bush as a speech giver didn't have a distinctive voice, writes Willoughby. "You couldn't hear him in your mind's ears"

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