- Michael Gerson
Michael John Gerson (born May 15, 1964, New Jersey) is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.. He served as President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001-2006 until June 2006, and as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006. A member of the White House Iraq Group, Gerson was called "the conscience of the White House" by some admirers.
- David Frum
David J. Frum (born 1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency. He remains involved in political activities in both the United States and Canada, and his editorial columns have appeared in a variety of Canadian and American magazines and newspapers.
- Peggy Noonan
Columnist Peggy Noonan apparentlyagrees with my identification but does not like Palin's approach to politics; perhaps because Noonan is out of touch with ...
- Chris Matthews
Christopher John Matthews (born December 17 1945) is an American journalist, television show host and former political aide. Matthews has worked for four Democratic politicians. He was a presidential speechwriter for four years during the administration of Jimmy Carter. Matthews hosts a nightly, hour-long talk show called "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on the American cable television channel MSNBC, …
- Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire".
- Ben Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an Emmy Award-winning American lawyer, law professor, actor, comedian, game show host and former White House speechwriter. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. His sister, Rachel, is a writer.
- William Safire
William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He is perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for "The New York Times" and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the "New York Times Magazine", a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.
- Ted Sorensen
Theodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen (b. May 8, 1928) is of Counsel (retired Senior Partner) at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and writer, best known as President John F. Kennedy's Special Counsel & Adviser, legendary speechwriter, and "alter-ego." President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank."
- Bill Kristol
William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is a American neoconservative pundit, inspired in part by the ideas of Leo Strauss. He is the son of Irving Kristol, who is considered to be one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, and Gertrude Himmelfarb, a scholar of the Victorian era in literature.
- Marty Kaplan
Marty Kaplan is Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment. He is on the faculty advisory council of USC Center on Public Diplomacy. He hosted the radio show "So What Else is News?" on Air America Radio until September 4, 2005. He has worked as speechwriter and deputy campaign manager for Vice President Walter Mondale, …
- Mark Katz
Mark Katz (born December 28, 1963) is an American humorist, speechwriter, author, and humor consultant to politicians, executives and media personalities.
- Ken Khachigian
Kenneth L. Khachigian was a former speechwriter for Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. He received his undergraduate degree, with honors, from UC Santa Barbara and his law degree from Columbia University. He began his distinguished public service career at the White House at age 25, rising to Deputy Special Assistant under President Richard Nixon.
- Peter Robinson
Peter M. Robinson (born 1957) is an American author, a research fellow, a television host and a former speechwriter for George Bush and Ronald Reagan. Robinson grew up in Vestal, New York. He attended Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1979, where he was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa, and wrote for "The Dartmouth". He majored in English and graduated "summa cum laude", then continued his studies at Oxford University, England, …
- David Gergen
David Gergen is a professor of public service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1995, first as Counselor to the President and then as Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and also held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford.
- David Shipley
David Shipley is an American journalist. He is currently deputy editorial page editor and Op-Ed editor of "The New York Times". Shipley became deputy editorial page editor in January 2007, concurrent with Andrew Rosenthal being promoted from deputy to editorial page editor. Shipley had been Op-Ed editor since January of 2003. Previously, he was the national enterprise editor for The Times since January 2001.
- James Fallows
James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years. He has written for the magazine on a wide range of topics, including national security policy, American politics, the development and impact of technology, economic trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the Middle East, Asia, and other parts of the world.
- Bob Shrum
Robert M. "Bob" Shrum, (born 1943) is an American political consultant. Shrum was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania and raised in Los Angeles, and he is a graduate of Loyola High School of Los Angeles, Georgetown University (where he was a top debater) and Harvard Law School. He began his political career as a speechwriter, first for John Lindsay and Edmund Muskie and later for George McGovern. Shrum worked for Jimmy Carter for nine days in his 1976 campaign.
- John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz (born April 18 1961) is a U.S. neoconservative commentator for a variety of media sources, the author of several books on politics, and a former presidential speechwriter.
- Jeff Greenfield
Jeff Greenfield (b. New York City, June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents Benjamin and Helen. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1960. He obtained a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1964, where he served as editor-in-chief of the "Daily Cardinal". He graduated with an LLB degree from the Yale Law School in 1967, …
- Mark Salter
Mark Salter is an American writer from Davenport, Iowa known for his collaborations with United States Senator John McCain on several nonfiction books as well as political speeches. Aside from having worked on Senator McCain's staff for seventeen years (as of 2006), Salter has also worked with McCain on the books "Why Courage Matters", "Faith Of My Fathers", "Worth the Fighting For", and "Character is Destiny".
- Eli Attie
Eli Attie is a writer and political operative. He served as chief speechwriter for then-Vice President Al Gore from 1997 until Gore's concession of the 2000 election, and before that worked for President Bill Clinton and House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt. He is now the co-executive producer of the NBC show "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". He also worked on the TV series "The West Wing" throughout its run; according to the IMDb, …
- John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin (born March 29 1927) is the creator, executive producer, and host of "The McLaughlin Group", a weekly public affairs television program broadcast in the United States since 1982, and of "McLaughlin's One on One", an interview program. In the group program, the current format involves a group of four respected commentators discussing current political issues at the host's direction and tends to become a little heated, …
- John Avlon
John P. Avlon (b. 1973) is the author of "Independent Nation: How the Vital Center is Changing American Politics". He is a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and worked as chief speechwriter for former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Avlon was the youngest and longest-serving speechwriter in the Giuliani Administration as well as Deputy Communications Director.
- Amy Holmes
Amy Holmes (born 1973) is a Republican strategist who often makes appearances on CNN and FOX News Channel. She was formerly a speechwriter for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Holmes graduated from Princeton University with a BA in economics in 1994. She co-hosted "The View" in November 2006 and May 2007. On April 20, 2007, Holmes made her first appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher".
- Curt Smith
Curt Smith is an American author, radio/television host, columnist and former speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush. He specializes in books on baseball and sportscasting, but he has also written extensively on politics and U.S. cultural history. Smith grew up in Caledonia, New York and is a 1973 graduate of SUNY at Geneseo. He worked as a Gannett Company reporter, a speechwriter to former Texas Governor John Connolly, …
- Jeffrey Hart
Jeffrey Hart (b. April 22, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York) is a cultural critic, professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, essayist, and columnist who lives in New Hampshire, USA. A professor of English literature at Dartmouth for three decades, Hart took a leave of absence from his post in 1968 in order to work for the abortive presidential campaign of then-Governor Ronald Reagan. This role would lead to a position within the Nixon administration as a speechwriter, …
- George Gilder
George F. Gilder (born November 29, 1939, in New York City) is an American writer, techno-utopian intellectual and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.
- Asa Earl Carter
Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925-June 7, 1979) was a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama, whom he later turned against by running his own unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign. Under an assumed identity as 'Forrest Carter,' he published Westerns and a fake autobiography, "The Education of Little Tree", in which he portrays himself as having been orphaned into the care of Cherokee grandparents.
- Ben J. Wattenberg
Ben J. Wattenberg is a prominent American neo-conservative commentator and writer. He was born in 1933 in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Hobart College in 1955, majoring in English. From 1955 to 1957 he was in the U.S. Air Force, out of San Antonio, in Texas. He was an aide and speechwriter to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968, …
- Richard N. Goodwin
Richard N. Goodwin (born December 7, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer who may be best known as an advisor and speechwriter to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Goodwin attended Brookline High School and graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1953. He went on to study law at Harvard University, graduated summa cum laude in 1958 and joined the Massachusetts State bar the same year.
- Graham Freudenberg
Graham Freudenberg (born 1934) is an Australian author and political speechwriter who worked in the Australian Labor Party for over forty years, beginning when he was appointed Arthur Calwell's press secretary in June 1961. He has written over a thousand speeches for several leaders of the Australian Labor Party at both the New South Wales state and federal level. These have included Arthur Calwell, Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Neville Wran, Barrie Unsworth and Bob Carr.
- Liz Carpenter
Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (born September 1, 1920 in Salado, Texas) is a writer, feminist, former reporter, media advisor, speechwriter, political humorist, and public relations expert. Carpenter stood at the forefront of the Women's Movement when it began and never wavered from her platform. Her projects and causes range from supporting high tech to fighting cancer. Often called the "funniest woman in politics", she is still in demand as a public speaker.
- Raymond Price
Raymond Price was also a speechwriter within the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon, and was listed by John Dean as one person suspected to be Deep Throat.
- Hendrick Hertzberg
Hendrick Hertzberg is a political writer. He has been a staff writer and editor at "The New Yorker" since 1992 and was a staff writer at the magazine from 1969 to 1977. He was President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter and is a past editor of "The New Republic". Hertzberg graduated from Suffern High School in Suffern, New York after a semester as an exchange student in Toulouse, France.
- Mark Palmer
Mark Palmer (born 1941) is the Vice Chairman of Freedom House and the Council for a Community of Democracies. He was the United States ambassador to Hungary, co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy and of the Council for a Community of Democracies. He served in policy positions in the State Department in the Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and first Bush administrations, including launching the National Endowment for Democracy.
- Emmet John Hughes
Emmett John Hughes (December 26, 1920 in Newark, New Jersey - September 18, 1982) was a foreign bureau chief for and article editor for Time-Life and an aide and speechwriter for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His is most known for his 1962 memoir "The Ordeal of Power", a scathing review that questioned Eisenhower's political smarts and depicted Eisenhower as ill-suited for the White House. Throughout his life, Hughes was a devout Catholic.
- Aram Bakshian
Aram Bakshian, Jr is a native Washingtonian and currently is Editor in Chief of the American Speaker. He started his career as a speech writer for Chattanooga Congressman William "Bill" Brock during the 1960s. He also went on to write speeches for then Republican National Committee Chairman Senator Robert "Bob" Joseph Dole. Mr. Bakshian then went on to work within the White House under President Richard Milhous Nixon until his resignation.
- Joseph Kraft
Joseph Kraft was an American journalist. After working at the "Washington Post" and the "New York Times" in the 1950s, he became a speechwriter for 1960 Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. His work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. Kraft was a graduate of Columbia University. His syndicated column ran in over 200 papers.
- Matt Hughes
Matt Hughes is a Canadian author who lives in Courtenay, British Columbia. He writes science fiction under the name Matthew Hughes, crime fiction as Matt Hughes and media tie-ins as Hugh Matthews. Prior to his work in fiction, he was a freelance speechwriter for corporate executives and politicians in British Columbia
- Isaeus
Isaeus (Latin; Greek "Isaios"), fl. early 4th century BC. One of the ten Attic Orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a "metic" speechwriter for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheritance, with one on civil rights. Dionysius of Halicarnassus compared his style to Lysias, …