DAVID LITT: I'll never forget the first speech I wrote for the president where it was a speech he delivered in Puerto Rico.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Buenos tardes.
DAVID LITT: I remember thinking how totally bizarre that was.
As a speechwriter, you're always recognizing that it's not really my idea, right?
It's inspired by President Obama, but just the fact that you can sit down and be part of that is totally surreal.
And it never stops being surreal.
LAURA LING: You were just 24 years old when you started at the White House. How did that come about?
DAVID LITT: I did not mean to become a speechwriter.
I didn't really mean to go in to politics or anything like that.
I was on a plane and we had just begun our initial descent and I was sort of channel surfing on the free airplane cable.
