February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
‘Jon Favreau (26), chief speechwriter to Senator Barack Obama’
NY Times, What Would Obama Say?
“Mr. Favreau, or Favs, as everyone calls him, looks every bit his age, with a baby face and closely shorn stubble. And he leads a team of two other young speechwriters: 26-year-old Adam Frankel, who worked with John F. Kennedy’s adviser and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen on his memoirs, and Ben Rhodes, who, at 30, calls himself the “elder statesman” of the group and who helped write the Iraq Study Group report as an assistant to Lee H. Hamilton.
Together they are working for a politician who not only is known for his speaking ability but also wrote two best-selling books and gave the much-lauded keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.”
Zie ook: Newsweek, In His Candidate’s Voice.
Tags: barack obama,jon favreau,politics,speech
October 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
In Event of Moon Disaster: “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” (Via Cynical-C Blog.)
Tags: apollo 11,bill safire,buzz aldrin,lunar landing,nasa,neil armstrong,richard nixon,space,speech
The Guardian: “The days when great parliamentary orators would hold audiences rapt for hours are long gone, replaced by the incoherent impulse of the digital age, writes Simon Schama.”
Met een mp3 van Winston Churchills fameuze ‘We shall fight on the beaches’, 4 juni 1940.
Tags: rhetoric,simon schama,speech,uk,winston churchill
September 12th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: architecture,de horror,design,hitler,security,speech
March 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
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“De ‘winst’ ligt in het feit dat de Amsterdamse rechter de waarde en geldigheid van Creative Commons onderschrijft. “
Tags: creative commons,history,nl,rhetoric,speech,usa
