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Marc Thiessen is a former White House chief speechwriter and Fox News contributor who appears several times a week on The Kelly File, one of the most watched prime time cable news shows in the country. Marc served as a member of the White House senior staff under President George W. Bush, where he was the lead writer on two State of the Union addresses and worked closely with President Bush on hundreds of speeches. Before that, Marc served as chief speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Donald ...

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Marc Thiessen is a former White House chief speechwriter and Fox News contributor who appears several times a week on The Kelly File, one of the most watched prime time cable news shows in the country. Marc served as a member of the White House senior staff under President George W. Bush, where he was the lead writer on two State of the Union addresses and worked closely with President Bush on hundreds of speeches. Before that, Marc served as chief speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He was in the Pentagon when it was hit on September 11, 2001, and traveled 250,000 miles around the world with Rumsfeld, including his first visits to Afghanistan and Iraq. He saw the war on terror up close, from the Oval Office to the planning rooms of the Pentagon and the major battlefronts of the Middle East, and his inside account of the CIA’s terrorist interrogation program, Courting Disaster, is a top-ten New York Times bestseller. The Daily Telegraph named Marc one of the “100 most influential conservatives in America,” and his weekly column for The Washington Post is one of the paper’s best-read,reaching 6.3 million readers. He is a Resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife Pam and four children.

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Islamic Radicalism: America’s Failed Response
Behind the scenes at the 2016 Elections
Inside the White House: The secrets of presidential speechwriters

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Marc Thiessen: Americans see through all of the rhetoric
Marc Thiessen: AOC, progressive Dems know they have no mandate for socialism

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