Have US Presidents ever written their own speeches? You know,

[texpatriot2004]

before teleprompters what would this lying lunatic * have done? Were there always speech writers? Or did the great US Presidents write their own and then deliver them from their own heart and mind? Anyone know?

[Angry Girl]

1. I thought he used an earpiece because he has trouble reading

His handlers feed him everything through that damn earpiece. Like he's some fricking trained dog (with my sincere apologies to dogs).

[Journeyman]

2. Mr Lincoln penned his own words. . .

but then, he was one of the finest writers this nation's ever produced.

[unrepuke]

12. On the back of a shovel, with a lump of coal, in the dark, whilst

walking miles to return a book.

Uphill.



Both ways.

[napi21]

3. I don't know, but I do know that Clinton made lots of his own changes

to the speeches that others wrote.

Do you remember the story about the teleprompter quiting at the beginning of one of Clinton's speeches, and even the Press didn't know it until much later after the speech was done? I did the whole thing impromtu!

I'd give anything to see what Shrub would do in that situation!!!!!!

[texpatriot2004]

4. That would be hilarious, LOL just thinking of him in that situation.

He'd look as stupid as he is.

[napi21]

6. Yep! Betcha the networks would have a sudden satellite failure!

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7. did you see the clip of hillary's opponent announcing her candidacy?

duh ... {fumble, fumble} ... where's page 10? who's got page 10? ...

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[unblock]

9. "**I** did the whole thing impromtu"??? bill??? is that you???

welcome to du, mr. president!

:hi:

:evilgrin:

[texpatriot2004]

16. You have to be intelligent and ABLE to pull that off. You have to

know your stuff.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Uncertain, but my money is on JFK, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson.

[Yupster]

10. FDR did not, but

Hoover did.

[coda]

8. Madison wrote Washington's 1st Inaugural Address.

Certainly Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, Lincoln, Garfield, and T Rossevelt could.

[Aristus]

19. Little known fact: James Garfield was one of our most intelligent

Presidents. I don't know exactly how intelligent. We may never know. But he may have approached genius level.

[coda]

21. Yeah, I've read amazing things about him.

He usually isn't on most lists because he served such a short time, but that's why I included him.

There was something about him beng able to write using both hands and in different languages.

[Aristus]

23. Yeah, he could write a passage in Latin with one hand, and another

in Greek with the other hand simultaneously. He probably just did it as a stunt, but still, to be able to do it at ALL! :wow:

[texpatriot2004]

25. Yeah, show off but hey flaunt it if you got it eh.

:wow: is right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Yes actually Kennedy wrote many of his speeches, he was the first

to use a speech writer...

[coda]

20. Sorenson was certainly one of the best speechwritters.

Money well spent.

[napi21]

14. I found this link in a google search.

Speechwriters and their craft are actually a fairly new trend, and presidents up through Woodrow Wilson — a historian and a writer by trade who was in office from 1913 to 1921— basically wrote their own remarks. The first official speechwriter was "literary clerk" Judson Welliver (search), who began working under President Warren G. Harding in March of 1921.

"Presidents didn't give many speeches until the early 20th century," Ribuffo said. "Wilson could be his own speechwriter not only because he was a writer but because he didn't have to give any speeches. Now it would just be impossible."...

http://hnn.us/roundup/comments/11862.html

[coda]

15. Wm H Harrison probably needed one the worst.

To shorten it. :)

[Benhurst]

18. Good editors were, and are, hard to find.

:popcorn:

[texpatriot2004]

26. That's an interesting Google find on speechwriting. Thanks. nm

[chalky]

17. I thought Clinton wrote his own speeches, and the big complaint was that

they ran too long.

[Skink]

24. Clinton's a musician. He improvises.

[AlGore-08.com]

22. Gore writes his own speeches

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