What Ben Rhodes has said about All We Say (Ben Rhodes book)
1 quote · 1 episode · May 31, 2026
Ben Rhodes, Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say", has been quoted on All We Say (Ben Rhodes book) once in 1 episode of Pod Save America, most recently on May 31, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Rhodes said that studying all of American history let him see Trump's election following Obama as part of a recurring pattern rather than an anomaly.
“reliving all of American history kind of allowed me to situate our experience in a continuum where it's actually not that unusual that this happened”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 7:20
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What Does it Mean to Be an American?Pod Save America · May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
Jon Favreau talks with Ben Rhodes about his book "All We Say," tracing the 250-year argument over American identity through fifteen consequential speeches.
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