European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The super bowl of ghost Fri by Saul Pett associated press o  Walter Lippman said can write an authentic speech or another Man. Ii is As impossible As writing his love letters Lor him or saying his prayers Lor him. When he Speaks to tha people he and not someone else must speak. For in is much More import Mil Hal he is genuine. Than that he be Bright Clever ingenious entertaining eloquent or even  no specialized Talent is required. Ippman said anyone who know what he is doing can say whal a is doing and anyone mho knows what he thinks can say what he  Lippman was an important columnist whose judgments Woie closely attended by presidents tycoons and alter pillars of Power. But on the Mal Lerol speech writing no Oracle was Ever More widely ignored then or now. Especially now. In election year when the Lull Monsoon is upon us. Never were Moro people cleaving the air with Moio speeches written by other people. In the stupefying War of words 12 of Hie 13 original candidates Lor president used at last one mercenary each As do most Scalos representatives governors mayors Bank presidents tycoons and assistant tycoons Humble Gary Hart has no speech Winter. The super bowl of course is the White House where president Reagan has live Lull Lime writers four Esea rehers end assorted Iree Lanco specialists to help him with a portentous speech on the crisis in Iran or Wall Street with a one liner for reporters a Titbit Lor a le0 3 Cleiv la Risling royally in the Rose Garden an inspiring Sermon on the stale of the Union taped a Silliday greetings for Jimmy Stewart a proclamation summoning the attention of his countrymen to Dairy goal awareness week. For three Days of sum Mitry with Mikhail Gorbachev Tho boys in the Back room provided the great communicator with warm words of Welcome and Farewell one treaty signing statement one evening broadcast two dinner toasts and nine russian proverbs Lor targets of Opportunity. He used seven Cooling or thawing the cold War is ought with the menace of vast armadas of planes air tall carriers submarines guided missiles nuclear bombs and speech writers. Ted Soronsen whole for John Kennedy Fyodor Burlatskiy wrote Lor Nikita Khrushchev. They met Lor the Lirosi time in Nav York to years ago in Elfeel we have met  said Burl Alsky. To have  really vol helped write president Kennedy s messages dung the missile crisis i helped write chairman Khrushchev s  eyeball to eyeball typewriter o typewriter the Twain met. William Safire wrote Tor Richard Nixon go orgy Kornienko wrote Tor Leonid Brezhnev. In 1972, in the Geol Hall of the Kremlin alter the signing of the first treaty Hunting strategic weapons the writers sat Sido by Side basking in the warm glow of the Toason they had written Lor Iarj iwo world leaders. Kornienko particularly basked during Brezhnev s deliver of his Toast. Can you nol hear the Steps of history going by us he whispered to Safire ghost to ghost page14 the stars and stripes the example May be russian Rococo but 11 is history they say that lures perspiring writers to aspiring presidents the Chance that one Day their words May soar out of the Oval office or a joint session of Congress is the fuel propelling most of the practitioners now pounding typewriters in planes trains buses cars Motel rooms bathrooms and the Dank wings of Heaters. The Hope of marching into history sustains them in their frantic anonymity. Ever alter their words become history a curious Honor code prevails among presidential speech writers. Even at this late Date neither Clark Clifford nor Ted Sorensen will Tell you which Golden phrase he crafted Lor Harry Truman or John Kennedy. 11 waa years before we teamed that honest George Washington got help on his Farewell address from Izreo ghosts named Madison. A Alferson and Hamilton. Satire and Pat Buchanan reveal nothing about the language they supplied Ninon or Reagan but on a vice presidential level they have confessed their connection with the pusillanimous Pussy footers end nattering nabobs o negativism immortalized by Spiro Agnew. Among Jimmy Carter s writers the vow of silence was particularly easy to observe Aller his speech before a distinguished audience in Mexico City. None waa Temple to Rush Forward to claim authorship of his jocular remarks about jogging in Mexico because of Montezuma s  besides his humor. Carter s writers worried Aboul i wills of his Tongue. To their horror. In a major speech they heard him identify a huge Block of voters As by italians and one of the parly s saints As Hubert Horatio Hornblower Nee Humphrey. Gerald Ford s writers tried to keep him away irom judgment which he insisted on making  Reagan s writers Luxuriate in his masterful delivery of their lines but their ulcers stir when he strays irom Tho text. At such limes he has been known to come up with a statistic or item unchecked by White House researchers which later requires correction. This president literally saves his own Supply of speech goodies in a shoe Box. Sen. Robert Dale s stall wines not so much Aboul his wit which seems clearly the Best among the candidates but about his unrefined lunges Lor the jugular. George Bush s two writers sense up when he ail Libs something Folksy. Trying to explain Why he did poorly in an Iowa Straw poll the vice president said his supporters were probably Busy that Day Wilh other things like a daughter s coming out party. This in a stale gloomy with  foreclosures. We re paid for our anonymity said London Parvis one of the busiest ghost writers around. It s almost like a doctor patient  never was that confidentiality More strictly obeyed than in the presidential demise of sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. His writers said nothing. Asking them was Tike asking a team of surgeons which one killed the patient. I made some mistakes Biden said without further explanation o Tho mysterious osmosis by which the same words images and family memories travelled incognito from Neil Kinlock who wanted to be prime minister of Britain to Joe Biden who wanted to be president of the United slates. Salire now a new York times columnist and reigning scholar on speech Manship. Thinks Sidon May have suffered Salt hypnosis in he wearying blur of the Campaign and began to believe that Kinlock s thoughts were his thoughts. Satire Points out that he and other presidential writers Over the years have borrowed speech patterns and rhythms from each other without attribution. He does concede that Biden s loan was a Casa of heavy  sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin asked what difference does in make anyway most candidates and Many politicians use speech writers. Is it More moral to buy a speech and claim it As your own than to Seal 117 in the flurry of charge and counter charge Only at Haig appeared safely immune among he candidates. Who would think to accuse him of literary the a this Square Jawed Warrior who fires his crossbow at the state department Tor Che Shifo Catling who rises fearlessly against bureaucratic smoking and is ready to caveat that or context this Abe Lincoln the president who delivered the greatest speeches wrote his own. Of the two Best orators of their Lime Franklin Roosevelt used a Phalanx of ghosts end envied Winston Churchill for being Able to write his own. George Washington s three helpers wont on to become presidents themselves no president Wriler since has done quite As Well although Judson welliver now enjoys something of a revival More than 60 years the boy in the Bock room provided tin mat communicator with warm word of  Ruitian provetto tar targets of  wednesday