Pretty great article
HERE from Jon Favreau
(no, not the fat guy from Rudy) (tho yes, coming from me you're right to assume it would be) on writing Obama's 2008 convention speech:
It was the first
true all-nighter I ever pulled. But by the time we arrived in Denver the
next morning, we had ourselves a speech — or, at the very least, a
speech that Obama was ready to line edit. The rest of the speechwriting
team joined us at the convention, and we all went back and forth on
drafts until dinner. As we left to get some food, Obama said, “Favs,
don’t come back after dinner. You’ve been up for two days straight now.
Your mother would kill me. Go get some rest. We can take it from here,
and we’ll wake you up if anything exciting happens.”
That’s the man I worked for.
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