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Jonathan Edward Favreau (/ ˈ f æ v r oʊ /; born June 2, 1981) is an American political commentator, podcaster, and the former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.. Favreau attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he participated in community and civic programs, graduating as valedictorian. After graduation, he went to work for the John Kerry presidential campaign in ...
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The man who has held perhaps the most prominent speechwriting job of the new millennium is Jon Favreau, a 31-year-old from Massachusetts who was President Obama's chief speechwriter until this month.
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President Obama talks with Cody Keenan in the Oval Office, July 23, 2013. In the July 25 edition of Working, Slate's Jacob Brogan talks to the president's director of speechwriting, Cody ...
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Mr. Keenan, who had begun working for Barack Obama in the early stages of his 2008 campaign for the presidency, was smitten from the moment Ms. Bartoloni popped her head into his office to say ...
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When Obama was elected, Keenan became part of Favreau's White House speechwriting team, focusing on commencements and eulogies — including Obama's remembrance of Keenan's old boss, Kennedy.
How Obama and his chief speechwriter made sense of America's ...
CNN —. Such turmoil has raged since Barack Obama left the White House in January 2017 that his presidency feels like it unfolded in a distant age. While history's judgments take decades, it is ...
The story of speechwriting for President Obama
The answer, increasingly so during President Obama's time in the White House, was David Litt, a former campaign volunteer who started working in the White House with only minimal experience as a speechwriter. A few years later and he was meeting with the president and tasked with drafting many of his most high-profile statements and addresses.
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Cody Keenan, President Obama, and Jon Favreau on Feb. 5, 2013. ... He was "taking the lead on the speechwriting team for this and will be getting a higher profile in the weeks to come ...
Jonathan Favreau
Name: Jonathan Favreau. Chosen for: Director of speechwriting. Would bring to the job: Five years of speechwriting experience, and the total trust of Mr. Obama. He helped write every major speech ...
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Hurwitz joined Obama's speechwriting team at the White House, but soon found herself frequently pitching in when Michelle Obama needed remarks prepared. The two had hit it off during the 2008 Democratic convention, and soon it became clear that a permanent shift to the East Wing was in order.
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Sarah Hurwitz served as head and senior speechwriter to first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. Here, she shares 11 tips to master the art form of speechwriting.
Cody Keenan
Cody Keenan is an American political advisor and speechwriter who served as the director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.Keenan studied political science at Northwestern University. After graduation, he worked in the U.S. senate office of Ted Kennedy, before studying for a master's in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. After graduation, he took a full-time position on ...
Alumnus Recalls Five Years of Speechwriting in Obama's White House
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About Us. Fenway was founded in 2013 by President Barack Obama's former chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau and national security spokesman, Tommy Vietor. Since then, our team has grown — but we're still a small shop. Every writer on our staff is a pressure-tested thought leader in their own right.
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After a chance meeting with the future president while working on the John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004, Favreau began working for Obama the following year, when Obama was still a U.S. senator. Two years later, Favreau was on the campaign trail again, this time leading Obama's speechwriting team.
White House Director of Speechwriting
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Jonathan Edward Favreau (/ ˈ f æ v r oʊ /; born June 2, 1981) is an American political commentator, podcaster, and the former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.. Favreau attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he participated in community and civic programs, graduating as valedictorian. After graduation, he went to work for the John Kerry presidential campaign in ...
The man who has held perhaps the most prominent speechwriting job of the new millennium is Jon Favreau, a 31-year-old from Massachusetts who was President Obama's chief speechwriter until this month.
President Obama talks with Cody Keenan in the Oval Office, July 23, 2013. In the July 25 edition of Working, Slate's Jacob Brogan talks to the president's director of speechwriting, Cody ...
Mr. Keenan, who had begun working for Barack Obama in the early stages of his 2008 campaign for the presidency, was smitten from the moment Ms. Bartoloni popped her head into his office to say ...
When Obama was elected, Keenan became part of Favreau's White House speechwriting team, focusing on commencements and eulogies — including Obama's remembrance of Keenan's old boss, Kennedy.
CNN —. Such turmoil has raged since Barack Obama left the White House in January 2017 that his presidency feels like it unfolded in a distant age. While history's judgments take decades, it is ...
The answer, increasingly so during President Obama's time in the White House, was David Litt, a former campaign volunteer who started working in the White House with only minimal experience as a speechwriter. A few years later and he was meeting with the president and tasked with drafting many of his most high-profile statements and addresses.
Cody Keenan talks to NPR's Tamara Keith about writing for Barack Obama, the impact of Donald Trump's rhetoric and whether a president needs to be a compelling speaker to be an effective leader.He ...
Cody Keenan, President Obama, and Jon Favreau on Feb. 5, 2013. ... He was "taking the lead on the speechwriting team for this and will be getting a higher profile in the weeks to come ...
Name: Jonathan Favreau. Chosen for: Director of speechwriting. Would bring to the job: Five years of speechwriting experience, and the total trust of Mr. Obama. He helped write every major speech ...
Hurwitz joined Obama's speechwriting team at the White House, but soon found herself frequently pitching in when Michelle Obama needed remarks prepared. The two had hit it off during the 2008 Democratic convention, and soon it became clear that a permanent shift to the East Wing was in order.
Sarah Hurwitz served as head and senior speechwriter to first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama. Here, she shares 11 tips to master the art form of speechwriting.
Cody Keenan is an American political advisor and speechwriter who served as the director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.Keenan studied political science at Northwestern University. After graduation, he worked in the U.S. senate office of Ted Kennedy, before studying for a master's in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. After graduation, he took a full-time position on ...
O'Connor stayed with the Obama administration for five years, steadily rising up the ranks of the speechwriting team and building his communications credentials in the fast-paced environment of the White House. He learned to capture the president's unique voice, sometimes working with Obama directly to discuss important remarks.
About Us. Fenway was founded in 2013 by President Barack Obama's former chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau and national security spokesman, Tommy Vietor. Since then, our team has grown — but we're still a small shop. Every writer on our staff is a pressure-tested thought leader in their own right.
President Barack Obama and Jon Favreau, head speechwriter, edit a speech on health care in the Oval Office, Sept. 9, 2009, in preparation for the president's address to a joint session of Congress.
Describe the role that President Barack Obama had in the speechwriting process, according to Sarada Peri. ... with the remaining group members serving as the speechwriting team. Have each team ...
After a chance meeting with the future president while working on the John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004, Favreau began working for Obama the following year, when Obama was still a U.S. senator. Two years later, Favreau was on the campaign trail again, this time leading Obama's speechwriting team.
The White House Director of Speechwriting is a role within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The officeholder serves as senior advisor and chief speechwriter to the president of the United States. They are also responsible for managing the Office of Speechwriting within the Office of Communications.
If history is any indication, the Obama speechwriting team started on this process months ago and has been fielding a host of policy proposals and other suggestions for weeks now. "The real ...
There is a great story behind Obama's excellence in his speeches. Jon Favreau was the director of speechwriting for Obama for 8 years until 2014. Jon shared five golden tips of storytelling that certainly do not only apply in politics, but in business presentations and every speech you need to make. 1. The story is more important than the words.
Hunter Biden, meanwhile, had grown to resent the Obama White House over issues beyond Buhle's relationship with Michelle Obama, according to his memoir. After Obama picked Biden to be his running mate for the 2008 election, Obama's team made Hunter quit his job as a lobbyist because of concerns about the optics.
It was the summer of 1998, the end of her junior year of college, when Sarah Hurwitz fell in love with the art form of writing the perfect speech, having scored an internship at the White House in then Vice President Al Gore's speechwriting office. "Every day his staff used words to move, inspire, comfort and empower people," she recalls.
In 2019, Obama wasn't even sure that Biden should run at all, and he was initially unconvinced by the team around his former vice president.
A photo circulating on X purportedly shows Biden's speech writing team. And let's just say, if this is indeed the group responsible for crafting the president's remarks, it certainly provides an ...
Records from the Obama administration, when Mr. Biden was vice president, show that Dr. Cannard made at least 10 visits in 2012 plus a family tour; four in 2013; one in 2014; four in 2015; and ...
On Wednesday, former President Barack Obama greeted members of the Team USA men's basketball team ahead of their trip to Paris for the 2024 Olympics.. The meeting itself was very casual and ...
The new leader said his team would "defy, quietly, those who have written our country off." That phrase, "defy, quietly" could also sum up his political career. Many people wrote off Labour.
Over the years, he has held important roles at the National Security Council, as staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under then-Senator Joe Biden, as national security advisor to then-Vice President Biden, and as deputy secretary of state during the Obama administration.
Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., on Wednesday joined nine other Democratic lawmakers urging Biden to step aside in the presidential race—as calls from within the party for Biden to drop his re-election ...