A similar account comes from Elizabeth Cottrell, an adviser who had been involved in some late-night drafting of a speech.
"I let her read a draft of a speech I was really proud of that was for some not insignificant occasion," he said.
It is understood that the remarks were contained in a draft of a speech Mr Hayes had intended to give last night.
That doesn't make them, as Bryant also says (or planned to say before he foolishly leaked the draft of a speech to Sunday newspaper journalists), "unscrupulous".
Nonetheless, Mr. Satloff said he hoped that the crown prince would actually deliver his remarks, which he told Mr. Friedman were contained in a draft of a speech for an Arab summit meeting next month.
Melanne Verveer, Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff in the White House, recalls her poring through the draft of a speech, peering up and telling the speechwriter, "I know somewhere in this masterpiece is the kernel of a speech".
Fox, who annoyed Downing Street in May by likening Afghanistan to a "broken 13th century country", made no mention of the prime minister's withdrawal timetable in an early draft of a speech to the rightwing Heritage Foundation in Washington.
He said a key demand was ditched, at the behest of Berlin, from the draft of a speech by Cameron just hours before it was due to be delivered.
Asked to read an advance draft of a speech by the isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg in 1945, he suggested that Vandenberg advocate a major treaty with the Soviet Union as a way to cement the friendship with the United States.
Thus, in a draft of a speech to be delivered on Monday, Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, declares, "I do not believe it is fair or accurate to blame our regulatory structure for the current turmoil".
