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In 2005, Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs recommended Favreau to Obama as a speechwriter. Favreau was hired as Obama's speechwriter shortly after Obama's election to the United States Senate. Obama and Favreau grew close, and Obama referred to him as his "mind reader".
The Eisenhower Institute's Fielding Center hosted Jon Favreau, head speechwriter for Barack Obama from 2005-2013. Since leaving the White House, Favreau has ...
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Mar 7, 2013 · 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...
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Jon Favreau recalls first meeting Barack Obama at the 2004 DNC while working as a deputy speechwriter for John Kerry and says Obama’s speech that night was a...
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Apr 22, 2015 · On Tuesday (April 21), Jon Favreau answered that question during a public talk at Duke University, “Words Matter: Storytelling with President Obama in the Age of Sound Bites.” In 2005, Favreau began working for then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, and in 2007 he became Obama's director of speechwriting.
Aug 25, 2016 · GQ: You helped write President Obama’s 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech roasting Donald Trump, which some say goaded him into running for president.
