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
The speechwriters that have inspired us. Overseeing production of all the president s domestic policy forches he has also written the nasa administrator and top executives at ibm, time warner, and the list goes on. He is a graduate of morgan state university. Theh hurwitz served in white house from 2009 to 2017, first as a speechwriter for president barack obama before becoming the head speechwriter for michelle obama. She served as the chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton during her 2008 campaign. She has an upcoming book coming out about judaism in september. Last but not least, John Mcconnell served more than 10 years under two administrations. He was a senior speechwriter for president george w. Bush and was responsible for the address to the joint session of congress after the september 11, 2001 attacks. He served as Deputy Assistant to the president as well as assistant to the Vice President. He is a graduate of Carleton College and yell law school. Todays conversation will be
Question that im sure nobody will have any problem having their answer recorded for television. Show of hands, how many believe alien life exists. Pretty decent number of people. Im going to throw in there as well. I think so, steving hawking thinks so. In a giant universe, there is distinctly a probability that somewhere alien life has evolved and probably looks different from us. But they might be out there opinion slightly different question. How many of us believe that aliens have visited earth . Sergeo, the only man with the strength of his convictions, i appreciate that. Heres a question. Is the idea that aliens have visited earth in and of itself a Conspiracy Theory . I dont believe so. No . Why not . If you take into consideration the fact that were trying to go to mars, we would be alien life there. The fact that another life form has become inning tell gent enough to do space travel. It takes another species to land themselves on another planet. Is an entire race working toge
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