Yes, I’ve been informed that only one person writes Aquino’s speeches. And this person is not some established writer like Undersecretary Manuel L. Quezon III or anyone like that in the palace’s huge staff, but a young Ateneo graduate whose only previous writing experience was in the university school paper, the Guidon. I’ve long wondered who writes Aquino’s speeches, which I assume are the product of a committee of senior writers, top-flight image-makers and designated keepers of the Yellow faith entrusted with the important task of keeping the President faithful to his own message in the many speeches he gives year in and year out. His upcoming talk before Congress (during which he is expected to defend his administration’s DAP), promises to be his most important address of the year, if not of his entire term, so I tried to discover once again who crafts his speeches. The search led me directly to a young man, still in his twenties, who palace informants tell me is the sole speechwriter of Aquino. This youngster, who also went to Xavier School before going to college in Ateneo, holds the position of presidential assistant—and he’s been writing Aquino’s speeches almost exclusively since the President assumed the highest post in the land in 2010. The kid is now hard at work crafting Aquino’s coming Sona, I’ve been told. And if you really want to know who he is, go ask his friend, the head of the Presidential Management Staff—a still-young woman by the name of Julia Abad. Yes, that would be the daughter of Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, the architect of DAP. Funny how they keep it in the family, right?
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:32:32 +0000
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