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Favreau first met Barack Obama, then a state senator from Illinois, while working on the Kerry campaign. 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 ...
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 speechwriter until...
Jan 11, 2016 · Jon Favreau, Speechwriter. “For the first time, Obama sees it and he’s like, ‘I actually don’t have that many edits’.” Published Jan 12, 2016. Favreau working on a speech with President...
Jul 13, 2018 · Jon Favreau wrote some of the greatest speeches of the Obama presidency. Today, with a runaway political podcast, he says he is grateful that Trump has inspired a grassroots Democratic...
Jun 16, 2023 · Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Favreau talks age, approval ratings and other obstacles the president will face in 2024. [MUSIC PLAYING] EZRA KLEIN: So Joe Biden is starting his 2024...
Mar 17, 2020 · He talks to Jon Favreau, host of Pod Save America and Obama's former speechwriter, about the process of writing the speech. Then, Professor Tracey Sharpley Whiting, who edited a book about...