41.   Slate will provide, among other things, a running conversation between Democratic and Republican speech writers throughout the convention.

42.   Speech writers approach the assignment of crafting a State of the State speech with all the anticipation of dental surgery.

43.   Speech writers can provide a candidate or a president with lyrical passages and messages of hope.

44.   Stein was a speech writer for former President Nixon.

45.   THAT MIGHT NOT BE WHAT THE CAMPAIGN HAD IN MIND, thinks the speech writer.

46.   That sounds like the sort of line a speech writer would dream up in hopes of hearing his words quoted on the evening news.

47.   That training has served Buchanan well, as a columnist, broadcaster, presidential speech writer and now, presidential candidate.

48.   The former speech writer is no stranger to embattled heroes, having worked for two men who were ultimately forced out of office, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.

49.   The former Nixon speech writer and columnist who is running for president on a platform of frenzied divisiveness?

50.   The problem with it was that neither the president nor the speech writers took chances.