Jon Favreau, former chief speechwriter for President Obama, is a columnist at The Ringer and co-host of Keepin’ It 1600.

“And then Obama comes over to my desk with the speech, and he has a few edits. And he’s like, ‘I just want to go through some of these edits and make sure you’re ok with this. I did this for this reason. Are you ok with that?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, buddy. You’re Barack Obama.’”

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Show Notes:

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[1:00] Keepin’ It 1600

[1:00] Favreau’s Ringer Archive

[5:00] "Ep. 75: Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer" (The Bill Simmons Podcast • Apr 2016)

[6:00] Favreau's 2003 Holy Cross commencement speech (College of the Holy Cross • May 2003)

[13:00] "John Kerry’s 2004 concession speech" (YouTube)

[15:00] Obama's 2004 DNC Convention speech (YouTube)

[17:00] Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Three Rivers Press • 1995)

[22:00] Obama's 2005 commencement address at Knox College (YouTube)

[32:00] "What Would Obama Say?" (Ashley Parker • New York Times • Jan 2008)

[36:00] Obama's Iowa Caucus victory speech" (YouTube)

[37:00] Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech (YouTube)

[43:00] "The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru" (David Samuels • New York Times Magazine • May 2016)

[44:00] "Ep. 42: Ben Rhodes" (The Axe Files • Apr 2016)

[45:00] "Some hard feelings in the White House press room over an official’s comments" (Paul Farhi • Washington Post • May 2016)

[59:00] "Hey, Berniacs: I Learned to Love Hillary and So Can You" (The Daily Beast • Apr 2016)

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