Benson, Thomas W.2023-06-012000Benson, Thomas W. "Speechwriting, Speechmaking, and the Press: The Kennedy Administration and the Bay of Pigs." Shorenstein Center Working Paper Series 2000.4, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2000.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37375420This paper is about the construction of presidential leadership through public rhetoric; about the authorship of that rhetoric; and about the mediation of that rhetoric through the press. As our master example, we take the case of John F. Kennedy’s speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 20, 1961.en-USResearch Paper or Report2023-06-01