Word: goode
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Campaign Manager David Keene is understandably pleased by Bush's new vigor as a speaker. Explains he: "At the beginning he was not in stride. Now he's saying what he thinks. It used to be that two out of ten of his speeches were good. Now it's seven...
Bush has employed his year of grassroots campaigning to take supporters in Iowa from the camps of Reagan and Connally. He actually seems to enjoy the grind, maintaining a good humor, bantering easily with aides and joking about some of the absurdities in politics. Describing his carefully balanced position on abortion (he is against a constitutional amendment to prohibit it but also opposes spending federal money on it), he mockingly calls the stance "heroic...
Ronald Reagan had downplayed the affair as "meaningless," and waited until 40 minutes before the prevoting speeches before sweeping into town at the head of an enormous press entourage. He approached the podium behind Rosie O'Grady's Good-Time Jazz Band, and the cheering lasted for six minutes. Reagan needed only ten minutes for his speech attacking Big Government and urging a tough foreign policy...
Sister Anne Marie set to work. Telling all who would listen that "I am certain the good Lord and good friends will hear me," she began rounding up used instruments. She organized the most promising students from her Holy Trinity Missionary School into a group and persuaded a local customs inspector to serve as conductor...
Prime Minister Botha seeks support for "good neighborliness...