What Ben Rhodes has said about I Have a Dream
2 quotes · 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 I Have a Dream 2 times 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 conservatives such as Reagan appropriated King's rhetoric while omitting his demands on government.
“Reagan loved to cite King and the content of your character, not the color of your skin, while leaving out those parts”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 35:41
Rhodes recounted that the dream passage was absent from King's prepared text and was ad-libbed.
“He did not have the dream in there. He ad-libbed the whole dream sequence”
Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 59:57
Episodes
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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