Word: hartmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard A. Hartmann...
...some of those with Ford in California, there was work as well as play. Chief Speechwriter Robert Hartmann began preparing Ford's final State of the Union message; Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, labored over the annual economic report. Back in Washington, OMB Director James Lynn was putting in twelve-to 14-hour days on budget options for Ford...
...week before D-day ("Delivery" day), as Hartmann labeled it, Ford began practicing his presentation of the speech. First he read to an audience of three: Hartmann, his deputy Robert Orben and Media Consultant Don Penny, a former stand-up comic who played a key role in improving the President's pace and delivery. Then Ford started running through the speech before a camera connected to a video-tape recorder and played back the tape so that he could watch his own performance. His coaches managed to minimize some of his idiosyncrasies-stumbling over words, dropping his voice...
...President took his video-tape unit to Kansas City to continue rehearsing right up to the beginning of the roll call of the states on Wednesday night. Practice made perfect-or almost. Concluded a satisfied Hartmann: "If he had two weeks to work on every speech, they'd all be that good...
...weeks before the convention, Ford and Hartmann began meeting several hours every day to sharpen the language and cast it to fit the President's oratorical style. Sentences were trimmed, syntax simplified, demanding rhetorical devices eliminated. On Sunday, Aug. 8, Hartmann spent a long working session with the President at Camp David...