This was from the president ial ideas festival hosted by the university of virginias miller center. We appreciate you coming, we have some other panels going on at the same time, we will try to make it worth your while. Today we are really lucky, i am a former speechwriter for president obama. We are also really lucky to have sarah and john. Jeff who works for resident click and was supposed to be here but he had a conflict that kept him in d. C. We have some questions for these two, and then we will take any questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being a president ial speechwriter is exactly like you think it would be on the west wing. [laughter] im just kidding, it is much cooler. [laughter] i will start with questions about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts as an idea and ends up as in a speech, sometimes the process starts before you have the idea. Im curious him how does an idea become a speech . In a weird
My hope is to use about half of the time to talk about questions ive got for these two, then spend the other half taking questions that you have. If theres one thing i hope you take from this whole session, it is that being a president ial speechwriter is exactly what you would think it would be on the west wing. Thats it. Im kidding, it is much more like veep. Since this is the president ial ideas festival, i will start with a question about the relationship between ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts off as an idea ends up in a speech, sometimes the speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. Just curious, sarah, what do you think, what would you share about that process, how an idea becomes a speech. I think in a weird way as speechwriters, we are not coming up with the ideas. There are much smarter people in the building that are developing those ideas. But in a way i think that these ideas kind of they dont get crystallized until theyre litigated on the page. So a
We will try to tell as many of his stories as we remember. [laughter] we have some questions for these two, and then we will take any questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being a president ial speechwriter is exactly like you think it would be on the west wing. [laughter] im just kidding, it is much cooler. [laughter] i will start with questions about the relationship between ideas and speeding. Sometimes what starts as an idea and incident in a speech, sometimes the process starts before you have the idea. Im curious him up what i am curious, how does an idea become a speech . Sarah in a weird way, speechwriters are not coming up with the ideas, there are much smarter people in the building developing those ideas. But in a way i think the ideas, they dont get crystallized until they are litigated on the page. A lot of speechwriting is a process job where you are managing the various points of different policy staff that all have different int
Sarah and john. Jeff, who worked for president clinton, was supposed to be here, had a conflict that kept him in in d. C. We will try to tell as many of his stories as we remember. [laughter] kyle my hope is to use half the time to talk about questions i have for these two, then we will spend the other half taking questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being a president ial speechwriter is exactly like you think it would be on the west wing. [laughter] kyle im just kidding, it is so since like veep. This is the president ial ideas festival come i will start off with a question for these two about the relationship between the ideas and speeches. Sometimes what starts as an idea ends up in a speech. Sometimes, the process starts before you get the idea. I am curious, how does an idea become a speech . In a weird way, speechwriters are not coming up with the ideas. People in theter building who are developing those ideas. In a way, i think these id
Jeff who worked for president clinton was supposed to be here, but he had a conflict that kept him in in d. C. We will try to tell as many of his stories as we remember. [laughter] kyle we have some questions for these two, and then we will take any questions you have. If theres anything we hope you take away from this session, being a president ial speechwriter is exactly like you think it would be on the west wing. [laughter] kyle im just kidding, it is much more like veep. [laughter] i will start with questions about the relationship between ideas and speeding. Sometimes what starts as an idea and incident in a speech, sometimes the process starts before you have the idea. I am curious, how does an idea become a speech . Sarada in a weird way, speechwriters are not coming up with the ideas, there are much smarter people in the building developing those ideas. But in a way i think the ideas, they dont get crystallized until they are litigated on the page. A lot of speechwriting is a