Jess Nussbaum has been a senior speechwriter for President Joe Biden. At my local public library I recently found his 374-page book from 2022, Undelivered, which is subtitled The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History. At C-SPAN CLASSROOM there is an article on Lesson Plan: Speeches Undelivered [with Jeff Nussbaum]. There is a book review by Priya Satiya at the New Republic on May 20, 2022 titled Would These Undelivered Speeches Really Have Changed History?
There also is an hour-and-twenty-minute YouTube video discussion at the JFK Library titled Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History. And there is a 39-minute podcast on YouTube from the JFK Library Foundation titled Undelivered: Speeches That Could Have Rewritten History.
One brief example (on page 147) is General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s apology for if the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944 had failed. You can find it at DDAY OVERLORD in a web page titled General Eisenhower’s drafted message. And it is discussed by Scott Simon at NPR on June 8, 2013 in an article titled The speech Eisenhower never gave on the Normandy invasion. General Eisenhower simply says that:
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
An article by Christopher Klein at History.com on March 13, 2024 titled Fooling Hitler: The Elaborate Ruse Behind D-Day discusses how the Allies mislead the Germans into believing the invasion would occur 150 miles away from where it did, at the Pas de Calais, and would be led by George Patton’s First Army Group.
The image was adapted from a silhouette of a public speaker at Openclipart.
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