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Former White House speechwriter: Focus on just one thing'
Russell Working
Former White House speechwriter: Focus on just one thing Clinton speechwriter Jeff Shesol tells how to focus your speech, become educator-in-chief, and write like Hemingway, not like Faulkner.
 
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