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Helmut Schmidt served West Germany as both Finance and Defense Minister and, from 1974 to 1982, as Chancellor. Supercompetent, superconfident and supercritical, Schmidt is a gifted orator whose acerbic wit earned him the nickname "Schmidt the Lip."
A close second in the polls is Bachrach, a fiery orator. His fervent speeches may spice up the Congressional Record and win him kudos from local high school debate coaches, but they won't win anything for Cambridge.
During his own college days, he headed the Harvard Debating Council and competed with an orator from England's Cambridge University as part of Harvard's 300th anniversary. Stephenson says he auditioned to give the featured undergraduate address at the celebration, but lost to a "track star," whose speech he...
In a nation known for its fiery orators, Virgilio Barco Vargas is a notable exception. While campaigning for President, Barco plodded through speeches with all the verve of an engineer explaining a blueprint. Supporters of the 64-year-old liberal were reduced to saying, "Virgilio may be a bad candidate...
Indeed, good overall relations with Washington seem ensured by Barco's U.S. ties, which include a Pennsylvania-born wife and the fact that three of his four children attended college in Massachusetts. "The reason Barco has trouble speaking in public," one campaign quip went, "is that he thinks in English...