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...short moment of silence jails upon the Great Hall of the Kremlin. The great Leader rises and directs his steady and measured steps towards the rostrum. All present rise to their feet. The walls of the Kremlin Palace shake with the echo of "Hurrah." All that fills the soul of the Soviet man, all that has been dearest Jor the Communist is put into this ovation, which expresses a boundless sea of love for their Leader. A minute passes-two, three. The ovation, like an Alpine avalanche, grows greater and greater. It only ends when the desire to hear Stalin...
Tobin went to the rostrum and called "all loyal Democrats to come forth." After damning the "Democrats for a day," Tobin introduced Professor Beer, who forthwith introduced the Governor. Dever pointed out that he had a calendar of appointments beginning at 3 p.m. and "couldn't spend much time." The clock at the rear of the auditorium read 3:05 p.m. But he did reassure all present that at the end of the hall, "there was much magnificent literature telling what we have accomplished." He then went into a vigorous, ten minute campaign speech, that brought frequent applause...
...captivating the hostile at whistle stops all along the way. Ike stayed out of sight while the Cleveland audience listened transfixed to the voice of Dick Nixon, piped into the auditorium's public-address system. When Nixon finished, the audience came to its feet cheering the empty rostrum. The band burst into the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and the crowd chanted, "We want Nixon...
...once. Tomorrow night I shall be at Wheeling, West Virginia . . . Whatever personal admiration and affection I have for you (and they are very great) are un-diminished." When Ike was through talking, he ducked his head and walked, grim-faced and squarejawed, from the rostrum. Bob Taft jumped up and shook his hand. The crowd streamed out; it was obviously shaken and affected by a great emotional experience...
...most corrupt regimes that ever inflicted itself on the state. And it was, by the way, a Republican regime ... I will stack up my record against that of any other man who has faced the problems of corruption in real life, and not just from the political rostrum...