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CSPAN Q A August 23, 2010



to emphasize and nobody really knew. i would write a draft based on what i thought he would want to say and then at that draft would be sent to 40, 5460 people, various bureaus in the department and embassies overseas. these people would slow listen the revisions back. it was my job to collate all of these revisions, or do i accept some and reject others? there was no definitive answers. i did it ad hoc, the way that i thought it should be without any guidance or direction and then somehow it became a product in the end. interestingly, the only time that i ever heard the secretary give a speech that i delivered was a totally atypical situation where i came in and there was a conference in the department and he had to give a talk at lunch and they needed something. i typed it up and pulled it out of my typewriter. i gave it to whomever and at lunchtime, i wandered down to the dean acheson auditorium and i went down and heard it and it was excruciating because he had not ....

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CSPAN Q A August 23, 2010



writing a speech for a secretary of state and the delivery of the speech by the secretary is purely accidental and serendipitous. i learned a great deal about the bureaucracy of the state department. what was most interesting and frustrating to me was that i would be given i would be told that the secretary would be giving a speech and no guidance and i would ask what he wanted to say and what he wanted to emphasize and nobody really knew. i would write a draft based on what i thought he would want to say and then at that draft would be sent to 40, 5460 people, 40, 50, or 60 people at various bureaus in the department and embassies overseas. these people would slow listen slowly ascend send the revisions back. it was my job to collate all of these revisions, or do i accept some and reject others? there was no definitive answers. i did it ad hoc, the way that i thought it should be without any guidance or direction and then somehow it became a product in the end. ....

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