Biden's State of the Union prep: No acronyms and tricks to conquer a stutter.
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to Congress at the Capitol in Washington on March 1, 2022.
“This is a guy who has been remarkably consistent over a very long career both in the values he brings to the job and the way he articulates those values,” said Jeff Nussbaum, a former Biden White House speechwriter. “When you’re writing for Joe Biden, you’re a session musician for a band that has already released 20 albums.”
Reed, the White House deputy chief of staff, has helped guide policy-related additions to the speech. A native Idahoan whose speech-writing career stretches back to Al Gore’s Senate campaign, he was described as a gifted writer by a former colleague. Reed, 62, ran Biden’s vice presidential office from 2011-13 and led President Bill Clinton’s Domestic Policy Council. Some of Biden’s loftier turns of phrase come from Reed.
Biden does not make notations to navigate his stutter for every speech, but he has done so for some of his more consequential addresses and meetings with foreign leaders in the Oval Office. He has remarked to a former aide that one of the hardest things for a stutterer to do is deliver remarks while standing up — which, that person pointed out, is his day job. Others say it looks as though Biden is marking up a piece of music as he prepares.
“After every couple of lines or words, he would draw a line straight down, a blank space between words, and that would indicate for him to take a breath,” Brayden, 15, said in an interview. He added that when they first met, Biden “looked me right in the eyes and said, ‘Aw, man, your imperfections are your gifts.’”
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