CSPAN Q A August 23, 2010
writing a speech for a secretary of state and the delivery of the speech by the secretary is purely accidental and serendipitous. i learned a great deal about the bureaucracy of the state department. was most interesting and frustrating to me was that i would be given -- i would be told that the secretary would be giving a speech and no guidance and i would ask what he wanted to say and what he wanted to emphasize and nobody really knew. i would write a draft based on what i thought he would want to say and then at that draft would be sent to 40, 5460 people, various bureaus in the d...