Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morris: He had been scheduled for Thursday, which is traditional. I came up with the idea of his speaking on Wednesday, so the day would be dominated by a major speaker and one headline. But Gore was very, very reluctant. He was suspicious he was being separated from the President. I raised hell about it and talked to the President constantly about it. Gore acquiesced. I felt if the Vice President could be himself, his emotional and caring self, then the stiffness and formality that have shackled him politically would be gone. When he gave that statement about his sister...
...rally in Chicago last week for the nation's two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the scene appeared straight out of one of those old melodramas with vocal audience participation. The guest speaker, Vice President Al Gore, had only to mention the villains--Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, "the Ginsu gang," who "tried to chop, slice and dice all those things that are important to us"--and hisses filled the air. The heroes, too, were just as easy to identify. "We love all our teachers," Gore told the pumped-up, cheering crowd...
...objection is simple: Christopher Reeve is an inspiring figure of rare grace and courage, but what exactly is the political point he is making? (If he is objecting to the paucity of federal research on spinal injury, that's a point against the Clinton Administration.) Keynote speaker Evan Bayh no doubt still feels the loss of his mother's death from cancer. You cannot be human without empathizing with his grief. You also cannot help asking what that loss has to do with making a case that Democrats deserve the presidency. Did George Bush deserve election because he lost...
...fair for Vice President Gore to link his concern about tobacco with his sister's death of lung cancer. But the problem with so relentless a tug at the heartstrings is that it precludes real argument. "I have suffered so much," the speaker is really saying, "that if you contest me, you deny the power of my feelings...
...keynote speaker--nonincendiary-- Brought twice as many kids as Molinari. Yes, Evan Bayh had babies in his coterie, But came off as a Democrat from Rotary. Though Jesse Jackson got to speak a lot, he And Mario, the party's Pavarotti, Got nonprime slots to call out all their tropes-- Competing with not Seinfeld but the soaps. Supporters now of Clinton, both declined To bash him for the welfare bill he signed. Then Hillary held forth with great aplomb: Apparently she's mainly Chelsea's mom. Her husband values every child he meets, Including those the bill puts...