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...some validity; JFK's campaign received a real boost from the famous Nixon Kennedy debates, among the first such affairs ever broadcast to a national audience. Currently, it is hard to forget Ronald Reagan's description as the "Great Communicator" when he appears in his element--behind a podium delivering a prepared speech...
...contrast, Gromyko and Ustinov seemed poised and assured as they stepped to the podium, conveying the impression that the foreign policy Establishment and the military were strong pillars of the new regime. In a resonant baritone, Gromyko stated bluntly that "those who are pursuing a policy of militarism, the mad arms race and interference in the internal affairs of other countries should renounce this policy and substitute for it a policy of peace and cooperation." Ustinov added his own forceful commentary. Ten times he invoked Andropov's name, praising the late Soviet leader for his "unflagging attention to securing...
...more than a decade, Warren Burger has used the podium at conventions of the American Bar Association to administer tongue-lashings to his colleagues. At the A.B.A. convention held in Las Vegas last week, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court delivered some of his harshest comments to date on the ethics of the U.S. bar. He called lawyers "hired guns" and "procurers" and accused some of advertising their services as if they were selling "mustard, cosmetics and laxatives." He said that attorneys file too many frivolous lawsuits and motions, and declared that a few "well-placed...
FEBRUARY 21, 1965--a barrage of assasin's bullets bombarded the speaking podium at the Audobon Ballroom in Harlem and landed in the chest and body of Malcolm X. With his death came loss, mourning and a suffering that continues still...
...Constitution guarantees free expression to all, and the University's control of a podium does not give it license to regulate behavior of an audience. Only the courts can interpret the law, and only legislatures can write it. The University should never define official limits for a speaker's or an audience's actions...