Re: Gore's speech writers

Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 9-Jun-96 Gore's speech writers by Timothy C. May@got.net

I read an interesting op-ed piece about how wonderful Bob Dole's resignation-from-the-Senate speech was, about how resonant and thoughtful it was. But the piece went on to point out that the speech was "un-Dole-like." Turns out it was written by Mark Helprin, a former WSJ writer and current novelist. Dole is just a typical politician.

I've been a fan of Helprin's short stories for a number of years -- he is a beautiful writer and talented wordsmith. Helprin can make a paragraph get up, get down, and do the fandango. If anything is going to give Dole a competitive edge during this campaign, it's Mark Helprin. -Declan