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...House of Representatives to deliver his State of the Union speech, he was greeted not only as a well-regarded former member but also as a President who had earned the gratitude of both sides of the aisle. Democrats clapped as vigorously as Republicans when Ford walked to the lectern, and his plain but quietly eloquent 45-minute speech was interrupted numerous times by applause. "This report will be my last," said the President, playfully ad-libbing: "maybe...
When embroidering such assumptions, Wolfe rarely sounds serious. Anyone who can describe Jimmy Carter's brand of religious faith as "Missionary lecternpounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly pineywoods Baptist" has not succumbed to ideological portentousness. Yet he clearly is serious−not because he is a closet conservative, but because he is an old-fashioned satirist...
...bargaining for cosmetic advantages went on. The Carter people struck back, insisting that the debaters not stand behind presidential-size lecterns. That way, they thought, Ford's chunky torso would be more clearly visible. More important, a big presidential lectern would mask one of slim Jimmy's resources: his agile physique. "Jimmy uses his hands and body beautifully," said one of the Carter team. "The President has zero body language." The Carter group won the lower, more revealing lecterns...
...aggressive North Korea issued strident demands that the U.S. withdraw its defense forces from South Korea. Libya's Gaddafi threatened to proclaim a "balance sheet" of member countries that, in his view, "leaned toward imperialism." Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, usually a quiet-spoken man, gave a shouting, lectern-thumping performance that amounted to a virtual declaration of war against Rhodesia and South Africa. "Assistance is urgently required," he said, "in the following fields: arms and ammunition, transport, food and medical facilities and personnel." Finally, the conference passed a resolution demanding an oil embargo against France and Israel...
...Hampshire was past; Massachusetts and Florida were looming ahead in successive weeks. Even as the victory chants in a Manchester hotel broadened his gleaming grin, the boyish-looking candidate took the lectern to talk of the impending challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept...