you show me a writing sample? so i had to go through the same thing, sorry, i don't have any. have you ever written a speech no. i will tell you what, mondale is giving a speech next week. write me a speech. i looked up political speech and began reading them. so i get an idea of what political speeches look like. it struck me when i first came to washington is the fact that all the monuments here, unlike the monuments in europe, are monuments with words on them. i decided i would make that the theme. i wrote that they liked it. they used it. they hired me. >> 1980 he worked for walter mondale, democratic candidate for vice president. but, this was long before the triballization of american politics and the polarization that have the two parties facing one another across the barricades of mutual incomprehension. a much more gentle kind of partisanship then. >> and when we got totally crushed in the general election got a call from the