Nixon Refuses to Resign and Other Undelivered Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History

This American President

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.6 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Great speeches can change the course of history. Not every speech, however, ends up getting delivered. Many, by twist of fate or some last-minute decision, end up being lost to history, such as Hillary Clinton's 2016 Election acceptance speech or...

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0:00.0	Some of America's most important leaders are remembered for the words that they spoke, for the
0:06.3	speeches they gave. It's impossible to think about President Franklin D. Roosevelt without recalling
0:12.6	his assertion that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, or that Pearl Harbor was a
0:19.8	date that will live in infamy. For millions of Americans,
0:24.3	these words define the career of a public figure. But sometimes, for that one memorable speech,
0:31.4	there was another one that wasn't delivered, and history was altered because of a twist of fate
0:37.4	or a key decision at one point in time.
0:40.6	In this episode, we will discuss these pivotal moments in history and the speeches that went unspoken.
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1:55.9	Music The Today's guest is Jeff Newsbaum, who's had an impressive career in speech writing, having served as the senior speech writer to President Joe Biden and as partner at West Wing Writers and has written for multiple speakers at various Democratic conventions.
2:39.1	Pretty impressive, having written for the president of the United States, that's pretty much the dream job of being a speech writer.
2:46.2	So, Jeff, thanks for being on our show.
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