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Joining me now barton swaem, author of "the speech writer" chronicling his four years of working for governor sanford. i want to make note you never mention the governor by name in this book. >> right. and the reason far was that i wanted the book to be about politics in general or to sort of general ralize or universalize the story to be about a lot of things that happen in politics and not just make it about one politician or one scandal. >> okay. kind of sounds like you signed up hopeing for the west wing experience and you got "veep." >> before i took the job, the job of speech writer had ...