The unexpected always happens...

Jon Favreau (born June 6, 1981)has been named to serve in President Barack Obama's White House as Director of Speechwriting.Previously, he was the chief speechwriter for Obama's 2008 campaign for President of the United States. He is the second youngest chief White House speechwriter on record after James Fallows.

Biography
Favreau is of French-Canadian descent. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2003 as the valedictorian,and soon after joined Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. Obama communications aide Robert Gibbs, who had worked for Kerry's campaign, recommended his former colleague Favreau to Obama as an excellent writer, and in 2005 he began working for Barack Obama in his U.S. Senate office, before joining Obama's presidential campaign as chief speechwriter in 2007.

Favreau has likened his position to "Ted Williams’s batting coach," because of Obama's celebrated abilities as a speaker and writer. Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said of Favreau, "Barack trusts him ... And Barack doesn't trust too many folks with that — the notion of surrendering that much authority over his own words."

On December 5, 2008, a picture of Favreau grabbing a breast of a cardboard cut-out of Hillary Clinton surfaced on Facebook. Favreau issued an apology to Clinton,whose spokesman referred to the photo as "an example of just good-natured fun between former rival camps."

Favreau was the primary writer of Obama's inauguration address of January 2009. The Guardian describes the process as follows: "The inaugural speech has shuttled between them [Obama and Favreau] four or five times, following an initial hour-long meeting in which the president-elect spoke about his vision for the address, and Favreau took notes on his computer. Favreau then went away and spent weeks on research. His team interviewed historians and speech writers, studied periods of crisis, and listened to past inaugural orations. When ready, he took up residence in a Starbucks in Washington and wrote the first draft."

 

 

 

  

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