For the people who followed him. But four years on he dusted off the madison draft and asked hamilton to take a look and make suggestions which i think instantly, and im sure no one here will take any offense, gives George Washington the greatest speech writing team ever. That is until the Trump Administration which i gather will have a bigger, classier, speech writing team. So president s from the beginning have sought help occasionally. But it wasnt until the rise of Mass Communication that the speech writer became part of the president ial orbit. The first president who is credited with having a fulltime speech writer was warren harding. Its no surprise that harding was also the first radio president. As mass media has involved going from radio to television to social media, so has the way the president ial speeches are prepared, so is the way they are received, so is the role of president ial speech writers. So im very excite that we have been able to pull together a terrific panel
If you would like to dig a little deeper into one of our panelists stories, ms. Ryan has a book which like to say a few words about the book give a little synopsis . You will be able to buy a copy for 70 later on for 17 bucks later on. The presidency in blackandwhite. Three president s and race in america. Bill clinton, barack obama, powell the list goes on. Talking about issues of race in this country and what they thought for. You dont hear a lot of people going on the record about certain issues, and that means they are trying to talk about race. That is the issue in our country, a nation that is running. Take it up and let us know what you think. Just a little piece of housekeeping remain seated. He will continue our conversation here, but we will take a minute to allow our speakers to get up and leave the room. We will continue that conversation in one moment, and how about a round of applause . [applause] on the next washington journal, free speech on college campuses. Looking at
He is a managing editor for opinion at u. S. News world report. He blogs and writes himself, and he works for the boston globe, hes been covering politics for a long time, and he really knows the ins and outs of speechwriting and knows all these guys really well and knows where all the bodies are buried. Without further i do, i would like to introduce robert, and youre in for a real treat. [applause] robert i want to thank the professional Speechwriters Association for putting this panel on, i want to thank georgetown for hosting us, i want to thank cspan for preserving for posterity what will no doubt be great wisdom from this panel. The nation turns its lonely eyes to the president. In the modern era dating to police december 7, 1941, the president has been not only the commander in chief, but the comforter in chief, the mourner in chief. The Job Description of the president in the modern era now includes expressing our national outrage, expressing our national grief, in good moments
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