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Courtesy of Matt Latimer

By POLITICO STAFF

12/30/2019 07:42 AM EST

How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom? With my wife, Anna, our three children, and unquestionably the best in-laws in the world, David and Robin Sproul. We will be here in town. Nachos will be involved.

How did you get your start in your career? Right out of Columbia Journalism School, I got a job in D.C. working for a Republican senator from my home state of Michigan -- in fact, the only Republican senator from Michigan in my lifetime -- Spence Abraham. One of my coworkers was Ann Coulter, who was just starting out on the pundit circuit. She was, well, herself even back then, but I will say she was one of the only senior staff members who spent any time talking to the rest of us grunts. My goal was eventually to become a presidential speechwriter -- a goal I did eventually achieve thanks to George W. Bush. I wrote a whole book about it in fact, though I was harder on him and others in some respects than I might have been looking back at it now.

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Whats an interesting book/article youre reading now or youve recently finished? And why? Well, the last book I read cover to cover was Tim Albertas American Carnage, which explains better than any book Ive read where we are as a country today. But since that might seem a little self-serving (as his literary agent), the book Im reading solely for pleasure is The Black Count, the story that inspires my favorite book, The Count of Monte Cristo. Im a big believer in both justice and revenge. Not in that order.

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BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Matt Latimer, partner at Javelin - Politico