Word: podium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flanked by some of the most renowned scholars of Africa and Afro-American studies, standing at a podium adorned with white and crimson roses, Mandela praised Harvard's commitment to studying the African continent...
...year later, Governor Clinton was in the throes of his own presidential campaign. Mondale tried desperately to get on to the podium at the Clinton-Gore rally at Daley Center in Chicago that summer. Unimpressed with her TV credentials, security guards refused to let her through. A flustered Mondale insisted that her father used to be vice president. "Vice president of what?" came the reply. Nevertheless, Mondale closely followed the first successful Democratic campaign for the White House since Carter's; when Clinton won, she wrote Chelsea a letter. "This is a very exciting time in your life," Mondale told...
...first time since 1995, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and Visiting Lecturer on Government George F. Will are going to share the podium in a debate concerning the state of American politics...
After concession phone calls by Flynn and Bachrach, Capuano strode to the podium in the Essex Ballroom at the Holiday Inn in Somerville just after...
...which Lieberman roasted Clinton's behavior as "immoral" and "disgraceful," will break the spell that has held most Democrats back from putting real distance between themselves and the President. Two other highprofile Democrats, New York's Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Nebraska's Bob Kerrey, followed Lieberman to the podium to say they agreed with him. Lieberman made his speech despite appeals from White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle that he hold off, at least until the President had returned from his trip abroad. But afterward Daschle came up and put his arm around...