Michel ’03 pen behind Bush speech
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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