Article: McCain Speech Must Reach Beyond Base

LIANE HANSEN
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
08-31-2008
McCain Speech Must Reach Beyond Base

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time 12:00-1:00 PM


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LIANE HANSEN, host:

John McCain will accept his party's nomination for president on Thursday. And throughout the month of August his longtime writer, Mark Salter, has been hard at work on McCain's acceptance speech, writing, re-writing, vetting, editing, likely getting input from advisers of all kinds. Michael Gerson has been there before. He was George W. Bush's chief speechwriter for five years, and he's in the studio. Welcome to the program.

Mr. MICHAEL GERSON (Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Bush Speechwriter and Policy ...

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