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
Evening is one of the most prominent journalists working in the field today. Peter baker, whos been working as a journalist for over 30 years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded
Evening is one of the most prominent journalists working in the field today. Peter baker, whos been working as a journalist for over 30 years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded
Years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th attacks in 2003, he was embedded with the United States marine corps during the invasion of iraq. His very first book was the New York Times bestseller the breach inside
Our distinguished guest this evening is one of the most prominent journalists working in the field today. Peter baker, whos been working as a journalist for over 30 years, starting out with the Washington Times and then moving to the Washington Post to cover local stories in virginia. He then began to cover the white house during the presidencies of bill clinton and George W Bush during his career. Peter has covered everything from elections, economic crises, Foreign Policy, natural disasters, legislative battles, eight Supreme Court nominations, six president ial inauguration ins, three impeachments, and countless state of union addresses. Along with his wife, susan glasser, he would spend four years living in russia, serving as the Washington Posts Moscow Bureau chief, chronicling the rise of vladimir putin, the chechen war, beslan and the moscow theater attack. He was also the very first journalist to report from rebel held northern afghanistan. And following the september 11th atta