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Jeff joins Steve Barrett and Frank Washkuch to discuss the White House Correspondents Dinner, tariffs, and why he'll always defend Katy Perry on the PRWeek podcast.

Has Donald Trump’s reelection crushed any last hope the world might have had for American-led global cooperation? Or can the U.S. still act like the superpower it imagines itself to be? At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jeff participated in a debate, sponsored by the New York Times, on the question of whether it’s time for the U.S. to step aside.

Jeff joins One World With Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign speech at the Ellipse.

Jeff joins the BBC’s Americast to preview Vice President Kamala Harris’s closing argument at the Ellipse.

Jeff joins CNN’s Zain Asher and Bianna Golodryga from Chicago on the first day of the DNC.

Jeff talks with Jen Psaki and historian Michael Beschloss in advance of President Biden’s Oval Office address on his withdrawal from the Presidential race.

Jeff joins former Trump aide Matt Mowers, CNN political commentator Kristen Soltis Anderson, and CNN political commentator Karen Finney to break down the latest in the 2024 presidential race.

These “second speeches” provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events. Jeff explains why studying these speeches is so vital in helping understand what actually did happen.

Sally Helm sits down with Jeff to talk about this curious kind of a document: a speech that could’ve changed history if only it had been given. They discuss what Nixon, and two other speech givers, would have felt preparing multiple drafts, as they faced an uncertain future, and how the world would be different had these speeches been given.

Jeff appeared at Theodore’s Books in Oyster Bay, New York, to talk about notable political speeches that were never delivered.

Jonathan Capehart talks to Jeff about writing speeches for a divided nation, and about the most consequential speeches that were never given.

Jeff joins PBS’s Global Perspectives to discuss his book, the craft of speechwriting, and connecting to audiences (even with dad jokes).

Public affairs firm Bully Pulpit Interactive has tapped Jeff Nussbaum, White House special assistant and senior speechwriter to President Joe Biden, as a partner.

Jeff joins Jen Psaki to preview President Biden’s State of the Union address.

There are many speeches that were written for powerful people that they never gave. Jeff Nussbaum considers the history of such undelivered speeches, as well as what they can tell us about ourselves today.

Harry and Meghan may be in the news, but one person who would’ve understood their plight best is King Edward the Eighth, Harry’s great uncle. How different would the world be if Edward hadn’t abdicated the throne in December 1936. Chuck talks with Jeff about the never-heard speeches that would have rewritten history.

“Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History.”

Some of the greatest speeches not only mark moments in history, they also make history.

Jeff Nussbaum on President Biden denouncing MAGA Republicans: “[Biden] has stuck with working with Republicans ... but I think here you see him admitting there are some people who are not really going to be part of the democratic process in this country.”

How many times have people planned a certain outcome that never took place? They thought something was going to come to pass, and then it didn't. Or, what about leaders who had two different speeches written and gave one, not the other. Jeffrey joins Dr. Phil on the Phil in the Blanks podcast to discuss never heard-speeches from history.

Author and former Biden speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum joins Morning Joe to discuss details from his new book ‘Undelivered,’ which looks at the most notable speeches never heard by the public.

Undelivered presents more than a dozen speeches that were never presented, largely due to twists of circumstance or last-minute reconsiderations. At a book talk Wednesday night at Bunch of Grapes, Mr. Nussbaum spoke about the years he spent accumulating the speech manuscripts that now form the bedrock of the book.

Former senior speechwriter for President Biden Jeff Nussbaum talks about the undelivered speeches that would have changed US history.

Jeff Nussbaum join CNN's Dana Bash to discuss Trump's impact on the Georgia GOP governor's race, a new poll showing an overwhelming amount of Americans feeling pessimistic about state of the country, and how issues like inflation and the baby formula shortage will affect voters in the fall.

What if Edward VIII hadn’t abdicated the British throne in 1936? If Richard Nixon had refused to resign? What if Boston Mayor Kevin White hadn’t supported the integration of his city’s schools? If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency?

Jeff Nussbaum’s new book, focusing on history’s most memorable undelivered speeches, is a love letter to all the speechwriters and public figures who toiled on addresses that never saw the light of day — at least, until now.

Here, we’ve got the background on an address that famed disability activist Helen Keller should have given at a 1913 women’s suffrage march — until it was broken up by 500,000 drunk male rioters.

Jeff joins News Nation to discuss “Undelivered,” as well as President Biden’s changing rhetoric.

Jeff Nussbaum, fresh out of the Biden White House, is out with a new book. Jeff joins at 7:40.

President Biden’s speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum builds an alternate history through the speeches leaders never had to make.

Biden speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum spent two decades searching for speeches that leaders ultimately scrapped — speeches that could have changed history.

Jeff joins the Politics War Room podcast for a conversation about “Undelivered.” Jeff joins at 14:20.

Nussbaum combines a speechwriter’s eye for detail with the amateur sleuth lurking inside of every history buff. Along the way, he solves some historical whodunnits and fingers Kennedy’s speechwriter Ted Sorensen, a committed pacifist, as the author of JFK’s undelivered airstrike speech.

”This is a President who has used the expression 'Not a joke, folks' more than he has told actual jokes,” said Jeff Nussbaum, who until this week worked as a speechwriter at the White House and has been involved in humor speech preparation for Biden. “That's not necessarily a bad thing in serious times. It's just that President Biden is a serious person dealing with serious challenges.”

In 2016, Hillary Clinton penned a victory address — which, obviously, she never had the chance to share with the world. It’s just one of the intriguing documents included in Jeff Nussbaum’s new volume of scrapped speeches.

President Biden’s eulogies are not crafted just as remembrances but also calls to action. “As he is extolling the memory of people recently, especially political ones, he's also holding them up as examples of what we can be,” said Jeff Nussbaum, the author of the forthcoming book “Undelivered.”

How does Biden navigate the tricky politics of attending the WHCD in a time of widespread public anxiety? Jeff Nussbaum told us in an exclusive interview that the rule they live by in Biden world is “the Hippocratic Humor Oath, which is first do no harm.”

For Jeffrey Nussbaum ’97, a political veteran who returned to the White House earlier this year as a speechwriter for President Joe Biden, the beauty of his craft often isn’t found in Winston Churchill–style bombast but in the smaller moments that connect a leader with his audience.

Concession speeches help maintain peace after elections, but they're not legally required. So what happens when those speeches deviate from tradition?

For President Obama’s speechwriters, senior advisors, and other people who work in the West Wing, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is one of the toughest work weekends of the year. Writing for the WHCD means prepping the leader of the free world for the country’s biggest stand-up act.