Who would you hire as one of your speechwriters?

• Ted Sorenson (Kennedy): “Ask not what your country can do for you …”

  

• Robert T. Hartmann (Ford): On Nixon’s resignation, “Our long national nightmare is over.”

  

• Peggy Noonan (Bush 41): “Read my lips. No new taxes.”

  

• David Frum/Matthew Scully (Bush 43): Iran, Iraq and North Korea are “an axis of evil.”