Jon Favreau (speechwriter)
Jonathan Edward Favreau is an American political commentator, podcaster, and the former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama.
Favreau in March 2017
President Barack Obama meets with Favreau, in the Oval Office to review a speech on April 14, 2009.
Obama works with Favreau on the President's Normandy speech aboard Air Force One en route to Paris on June 5, 2009.
Obama talks with Favreau, David Plouffe, and Jon Lovett on February 6, 2011.
A speechwriter is a person who is hired to prepare and write speeches that will be delivered by another person. Speechwriters are employed by many senior-level elected officials and executives in the government and private sectors. They can also be employed to write for weddings and other social occasions.
U.S. President Barack Obama and aides Carol Browner, David Axelrod, and Jon Favreau working on a speech in June 2010
Ted Sorensen authored President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address in January 1961, which included the famed phrase, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your county."