Did JFK have speech writers? Or was he the last Prez to write his own?

[Scaramouche]

I'm watching MSNBC on JFK and the quality and the content of the speeches are so much more than what we've gotten for a while. Was it because he wrote his own speeches?

[kodi]

teddy sorenson was a master craftsman, but kennedy was too

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[Zomby Woof]

4. Sorenson even wrote JFK's thesis

Which became "Profiles In Courage".

[CMT]

5. Sorenson

also allegedly ghost wrote "Profiles in Courage".

[Dr Fate]

1. Gore writes a lot of his own speeches...

...and he got more votes than Bush...

[mitchum]

2. Uh, even his ad libs were scripted

I know that sounds like heresy to some, but it's the truth

[Bombtrack]

3. the last to write his own was Calvin Coolidge

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[Yupster]

8. Herbert Hoover wrote his own

that's what I'd heard anyway. I thought he was the last.

[QC]

6. Kennedy even had book writers.

It was common knowledge even when he was among the living that Sorensen was more or less a coauthor of Profiles in Courage, so extensive were the revisions he made in order to get a publishable book out of Kennedy's senior thesis.

[AP]

7. JFK was pretty good with off-the-cuff remarks.

Did I just read here today that when JFK was campaigning in Iowa if he was rooting for Iowa or ND in a big game, he said "I'm rooting for IA, but I'm praying for ND," or something like that. For a C student, he was pretty smart when he applied himself. Same with FDR.