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They dug up some of the speechwriter's letters a while back for if things went wrong, some pretty sobering stuff. https://www.space.com/7011-president-nixon-pr

• jpatokal 8y ago
  Those were written by William Safire, who's to speech writing what Mozart was to composing music. Previous HN discussion of what's been called the greatest speech never given here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064103
• m3at 8y ago
  The full set of prepared speeches can be found here: https://m.xkcd.com/1484/ https://m.xkcd.com/1484/