31.   Lowe plays deputy communications director and beleaguered speech writer Sam Seaborn.

32.   Leonard often makes off-the-cuff comments that even surprise his company speech writers and public relations specialists.

33.   Obviously, Mrs. Clinton and her speech writer, Lissa Muscatine, decided to push alliterative epistrophe.

34.   On that score, Buchanan, a former St. Louis newspaperman before he became a White House speech writer, has the edge.

35.   One gets the sense of Clinton fussing over each word while Bush delegates too much to his speech writers.

36.   One program, to be broadcast next month, is a series on values with host Peggy Noonan, a former speech writer for President Reagan.

37.   Peggy Noonan feared that being a speech writer for others had obliterated her own voice.

38.   She handles every question about her life with the ease of a trained speech writer.

39.   She is married to David K. Shipley, a former speech writer for President Clinton and now an editor at The New York Times Magazine.

40.   Several experienced political speech writers agreed that the president would serve himself best by setting out his agenda for the year and avoiding the topic of Lewinsky.