Lesson #66: EXPECTATION VS. REALITY: “Have You Met Him Yet” - David Litt
Hello! This month we bring you a story from the Mainstage teller, David Litt. David was one of President Obama’s speech writers and told this story first at a 2017 Mainstage.
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David Litt ’08, former speechwriter for Barack Obama, shared details and advice from his career in comedy and politics at an event hosted on Oct. 26 by the Yale Record and the Yale College Democrats.
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President-elect Joe Biden will take the stage for his inaugural address tomorrow at perhaps the most difficult starting point for a president since Franklin Roosevelt began his first term by assuring a nation scarred by the Great Depression that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”.
But memorable turns of phrase like President Roosevelt’s are more the exception than the rule when it comes to inaugural addresses.
Former President Barack Obama in his memoir noted that singer Aretha Franklin’s showy hat and a glitch in Chief Justice John Roberts’s administration of the oath of office got more attention than his speech in the days following the first black president’s address, delivered as the nation was mired in recession and a growing malaise over two intractable wars.