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Michel ’03 pen behind Bush speech

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The November after he graduated, Christopher Michel ’03 wrote President George W. Bush’s ’68 speech for the annual turkey-pardoning ceremony the White House holds each Thanksgiving.

But this past December, Michel received a different assignment: he was ordered to sit down with fellow speechwriters Bill McGurn and Marc Thiessen to outline the president’s State of the Union address.

Michel — who began his career at the White House as an unpaid intern two weeks after commencement and is now a deputy speechwriter — has now worked on five State of the Unions, the first two as a...

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