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You show me a writing sample? so i had to go through the same thing, sorry, i dont have any. have you ever written a speech no. i will tell you what, mondale is giving a speech next week. write me a speech. i looked up political speech and began reading them. so i get an idea of what political speeches look like. it struck me when i first came to washington is the fact that all the monuments here, unlike the monuments in europe, are monuments with words on them. i decided i would make that the t...

You show me a writing sample? so i had to go through the same thing, sorry, i dont have any. have you ever written a speech no. i will tell you what, mondale is giving a speech next week. write me a speech. i looked up political speech and began reading them. so i get an idea of what political speeches look like. it struck me when i first came to washington is the fact that all the monuments here, unlike the monuments in europe, are monuments with words on them. i decided i would make that the t...

Law. there was this one psychiatrist who was charles. and we arranged for him to come to lunch. >> so i went down to see mike. he interviewed me and he said can you show me a writing sample i said unfortunately i cant. i have never written anything. when i was a psychiatrist, and you discharged a patient you write a discharge summary. the first time did i a discharge summary it came out looking like it was written in chinese. i had to rewrite the whole thing. after one or two or three or four. i...

The first question was, can you show me a writing sample? i said, sorry, i dont have any. do you have a written speech? now. i said, i would tell you what, walter mondale is giving a speech next week. i looked up political speeches and i began reading them. it struck me when i first came to washington was the fact that all the monuments are like the monuments in europe, our monuments have boards on them. so i decided i would make that the theme. it. wrote that, they liked it, they used it, they ...

Psychiatrist who was charles. and we arranged for him to come to lunch. >> so i went down to see mike. he interviewed me and he said can you show me a writing sample i said unfortunately i cant. i have never written anything. when i was a psychiatrist, and you discharged a patient you write a discharge summary. the first time did i a discharge summary it came out looking like it was written in chinese. i had to rewrite the whole thing. after one or two or three or four. i would dictate, this is ...

Post. solve hit a double the first time out. >> how many people have you heard of who become giants of journalism just by sending a piece to a magazine like the new republic. thats what charles did. >> then i went through another stage. i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale. i joined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking abou...

Law. there was this one psychiatrist who was charles. and we arranged for him to come to lunch. >> so i went down to see mike. he interviewed me and he said can you show me a writing sample i said unfortunately i cant. i have never written anything. when i was a psychiatrist, and you discharged a patient you write a discharge summary. the first time did i a discharge summary it came out looking like it was written in chinese. i had to rewrite the whole thing. after one or two or three or four. i...

Time out. >> how many people have you heard of who become giants of journalism just by sending a piece to a magazine like the new republic. thats what charles did. >> then i went through another stage. i became a speech writer for the vice president of the united states, walter mondale. i joined him sometime in the spring of 1980. talk about luck. i had met, again, shear blind luck once at a dinner the chief speech writer. and we met a second time. talking about the job. he said, you know, he me...

I had begun to change. >> what happened? >> empirical evidence. as a doctor, id been trained in empirical evidence. i mean, if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. and i began to look and to read and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way, and i sort of -- i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. >> by that time, krauthammers world was really falling into place. ...

And then by the end of the 80s, i had begun to change. >> what happened? >> empirical evidence. as a doctor, id been trained in empirical evidence. i mean, if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. and i began to look and to read and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way, and i sort of -- i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. >> by that time, krauthammers world...