Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Cody Keenan, White House speechwriter, crafts Obama's Tucson memorial message

Cody Keenan, second from right, with David Axelrod, Bill Burton, and Reggie Love. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) It's official: The Cody Generation is now old enough to get hired as a White House speechwriter -- and a pretty good one at that.President Obama's speech at the Tucson memorial service -- hailed for striking large themes while keeping focus on the individual victims -- was written in collaboration with staffer Cody Keenan.Press secretary Robert Gibbs described the speech as "very much the president's," one he labored over from initial planning through last-minute edits on the plane to Arizona. But Gibbs also singled out Keenan by name in a late-Wednesday briefing after the memorial service: He said the two began collaborating late Monday, with Obama sharing his thoughts with the writer, and then giving his edits to Keenan around 1 a.m. Wednesday, and continuing to work through that day. Key moments of


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