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'West Wing' Speechwriter

NPR
Published January 28, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Rick Cleveland has some experience writing presidential speeches. He won an Emmy award for writing on The West Wing. One of his jobs was to write the State of the Union address for fictional President Josiah Bartlet.

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