john mcconaughey work for george w. bush. was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d.c. we will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. my hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. and then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. this when they happy to go if the whole session is being a presidential speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. that is it. [laughter] i m kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a presidential ideas festival. i ll set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. so just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech? in a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the buildin
Speechwriter, but in making a film about them. Which is how i came to be a today. I made a film in 2006, seven, eight, about the obama campaign, and one of my favorite parts about the film is getting to spend time with the speechwriters. And when i met dick goodwin a aa screen for the family started telling me stories, and the stories were so rich and so colorful that i thought this would be a great subject for a documentary. And knows all these guys really well and knows where all the bodies are buried. So without further ado, i would like to introduce robert and you are in for a real treat. Thank you. [applause] thank you for that wonderful introduction. I want to thank david murray the professional speech Writers Association for putting this panel on. I want to thank georgetown for hosting us. I want to thank cspan for preserving for posterity that will no doubt be great wisdom from this panel. So the Space Shuttle has blown up yet there has been a terrorist attack. There has been a
john mcconaughey work for george w. Bush. Was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d. C. We will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. My hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. And then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. This when they happy to go if the whole session is being a president ial speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. That is it. [laughter] im kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a president ial ideas festival. Ill set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. Sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. So just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech . In a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for deve
John mcconaughey work for george w. Bush. Was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d. C. We will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. My hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. And then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. This when they happy to go if the whole session is being a president ial speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. That is it. [laughter] im kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a president ial ideas festival. Ill set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. Sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. So just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech . In a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for deve
john mcconaughey work for george w. Bush. Was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d. C. We will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. My hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. And then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. This when they happy to go if the whole session is being a president ial speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. That is it. [laughter] im kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a president ial ideas festival. Ill set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. Sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. So just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech . In a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for deve