Word: speaker
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...public debate. Mansfield has never been shy about publicly advocating his opinions. Last year, he even agreed to rebut the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's speech about affirmative action at the Institute of Politics. Following a charismatic address by Jackson is a daunting task for even an accomplished public speaker, which Mansfield certainly is not, but he gamely attempted to offer a conservative response...
...voter discontent in a presidential-election year, made a response that was uncharacteristically swift and characteristically disproportionate. Senator Bob Dole, first off the mark, proposed in a letter to President Clinton that the 1993 federal gasoline-tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. be repealed, an action that Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested Congress could accomplish by Memorial Day. Pointedly noting that there had been no Republican support for that 1993 tax increase, Dole declared on the Senate floor, "We believe, with the skyrocketing prices of gasoline, jet fuel and other fuels, that the most certain way to give consumers relief...
...36th crusade, in May 1994 in Charleston, West Virginia, his father, having watched him for the first time, hugged him and told him he was proud of him. In September Franklin preached in Raleigh, North Carolina. In the audience was his older sister, Anne Graham Lotz, herself an inspirational speaker and long considered the child who had inherited the greatest share of Billy's gift. Afterward, Lotz told Business North Carolina magazine, she embraced her brother, looked him in the eye, and said, "Franklin, the mantle is passed...
...SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH Aimless between the rock of a resurgent White House and the hard place of G.O.P. freshmen...
...terrible period in my life," he butted heads with liberal faculty members at several universities before successfully running for Congress in 1984 as a political amateur against a popular incumbent. After a rocky start (he tried bunking in the House gym to save money until he was ejected by Speaker Tip O'Neill), Armey first showed talent as a legislator in 1987 when he won bipartisan support for a bill establishing an independent commission to recommend military bases for closing. He rose so rapidly through his party's ranks that after the 1994 elections, he ran unopposed...