Just published in Creative Screenwriting: "It’s a credit to Aaron Sorkin and John Wells that West Wing is a world where speechwriting is a sexy noble job, which is never how it was in the real White House. One of the premises of the West Wing, which I think is a wonderful thing and a rare thing, is that intelligence is nobility. That’s one of the reasons why there are these passionate debates over sentence construction. It’s not a show where people are fighting over the gun; they’re usually fighting over the preposition." http://creativescreenwriting.com/eli-attie-from-the-white-house-to-the-w...
Screenwriting : Interview with Eli Attie, of The West Wing and House by Lauri Donahue
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I still believe writing speeches can be noble (not sure about sexy). The sad truth is that politicians seldom turn the hopeful vision conveyed in the best speeches into real life action. Some, such as the best speeches written for JFK and RFK and Martin Luther King live on today. And Churchill, who wrote his own speeches, galvanized the world with his indomitable spirit. Definitely not sexy, though!