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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Words that Changed The World, with Jeremy Irons and Carey Mulligan

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

Speech Writing - What Does That Mean?

I got into politics because at its most pure, it's a battle of ideas and I've felt passionately about a bunch of ideas. My first boss was Ted Kennedy, Senator, John F. Kennedy's brother, worked for him for years just as a policy aide. In 2007, they heard I could write and I lied until my good, and this is my first speech writing job. So what does that mean then? When you say you can write, what had they seen of yours at that stage? Was it phrases? Was it the way you carried a message? What do you put into it?

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