Political Speech Writers

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President Taft

Ragsdale, L. (1984). The politics of presidential speechmaking, American Political Science Review, 78, 971-984.

Medhurst, M. J. (2003). Presidential speechwriting: Ten myths that plague modern scholarship. In K. Ritter and M. J. Medhurst (Eds.) Presidential speechwriting: From the new deal to the Reagan revolution and beyond (pp. 3-19). College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press.

Witherspoon, P. D. (1987). "Let us continue:" The rhetorical initiation of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 17, 531-539.