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{{Short description|American speechwriter (1930–2019)}}{{more citations needed|date=February 2019}}

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New York City, New York (state)>New York, U.S.2019135|6}}New York City, New York (state)>New York, U.S.Republican Party (United States)>RepublicanYale University (Bachelor of Arts>BA)}}Raymond Kissam Price Jr. (May 6, 1930 â€“ February 13, 2019) was an American writer who was the chief speechwriter for U.S. President Richard Nixon, working on both inaugural addresses, his resignation speech, and Gerald Ford's pardon speech.NEWS, Martin, Douglas, February 14, 2019, Raymond K. Price Jr., a Key Nixon Speechwriter, Is Dead at 88,weblink The New York Times, February 14, 2019, During Nixon's presidential campaign of 1968, the candidate made use of the contrasting style of two speechwriters (the other being Pat Buchanan) with Price becoming known to colleagues as Mr Outside because his work was aimed at broadening Nixon's appeal.NEWS, Schell, Jonathan,weblink The Time of Illusion, The New Yorker, June 2, 1975, April 27, 2020, A native of New York City, Price graduated from Yale University in 1951. There, he was a member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union and also belonged to Skull and Bones.BOOK, Alexandra, Robbins, Alexandra Robbins, Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 2002, 0-316-72091-7,weblink {{rp|173}}Price wrote a retrospective on the presidency titled With NixonNew York : Viking Press, 1977. {{ISBN|0-670-77672-6}} and assisted Nixon in the writing of several books. John Dean mentioned Price as one person suspected (falsely) of having been Deep Throat. For 19 years, Price was a member of the Economic Club of New York.NEWS, Gary, Shapiro, Gary Shapiro (journalist), A Century Of Serious Conversation,weblink The New York Sun, 2007-06-07, 2008-11-23,

Career

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• Collier's magazine, New York City, assistant to editor, 1955–1957
• Life magazine, New York City, reporter, 1957
• New York Herald Tribune, New York City, member of editorial staff, 1957–1964, editor of editorial page, 1964–1966
• assistant to Richard M. Nixon, 1967–1969, special assistant, 1969–1973, special consultant, 1973–1974, 1980. Writer. Chief speechwriter for President Nixon
• Fellow at John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics, Harvard University, 1977
• visiting fellow at American Enterprise Institute, 1977
• Nixon Professor at Whittier College, Whittier, California, 1978.

Other memberships

• Aurelian Honor Society
• Economic Club of New York
• Federal City Club
• Metropolitan Club
• Overseas Press Club of America
• Skull and Bones
• Yale Club of New York City

Further reading

• The New York Times Book Review, November 20, 1977;
• Newsweek, November 28, 1977;
• New York Review of Books, April 6, 1978.

References

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External links

• PBS Biography
• {{C-SPAN|10140}}
  • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Price, December 28, 2008

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