President Obama completed the State of the Union address on Jan 28 and the person penned it is a 33-year-old gentleman named Cody Keenan.
No amount of eye-squinting could decipher the details, but if anyone knew exactly what Obama intended to say in his annual address to the nation, it was chief speech writer Keenan.
The 33-year-old Keenan wrote what will be his State of the Union address numero deux after taking over duties last year from Jon Favreau, who left after five years in the job.
A Chicago native who once worked for the late Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Keenan joined Obama as an unpaid summer campaign intern in 2007 as Obama sought the Democratic presidential nomination.
At the end of the internship, he returned to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government to earn a master's degree in public policy, graduating in 2008.
When the White House called, Keenan jumped at the chance to join the administration, according to a 2010 interview he did with the Kennedy School.
Keenan's speechwriting career took off after he crafted the impassioned speech that Obama delivered at a memorial service for victims of a 2011 shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, where former Representative Gabrielle Giffords was seriously injured.
Keenan, a former high school football player with a hipster-esque beard, also helped write the president's eulogy to Ted Kennedy in 2009.
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