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'West Wing' Speechwriter

NPR

Published January 27, 2003 at 9:00 PM PST

Rick Cleveland has some experience writing presidential speeches. He won an Emmy award for writing on The West Wing. One of his jobs was to write the State of the Union address for fictional President Josiah Bartlet.