Word: speaking
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Ford was scheduled to speak to a group of textile manufacturers in San Francisco on March 26, 1976, and Baker talked him into indicating his willingness to get tough on Chinese textiles. Kissinger's deputies were aghast, and Baker suspected that the Secretary of State would call Air Force One to have the offensive language deleted from the President's speech. Baker arranged to be notified if Kissinger tried such a ploy. When word came, Baker called the plane too. Arguing again for the President's political interests against China's hurt feelings, Baker had the lines reinserted...
...help. He based much of his script on transcripts from the Iran-Contra hearings and from Watergate events. The transcripts, of course, might be considered funny in themselves. But Gelbart amplifies the circuitous and consistently evasive discourse of today's politicians by writing in what he calls "half-speak," a play on Orwell's double-speak. A perfect example of half-speak comes when key witness Steward Butler (Harry S. Murphy) says (or rather, doesn't say), "I can only reiterate what I've repeated before...
...asked to speak to the group because he shares the Center's goals of promoting public service and increasing ethical awareness. Albanese said...
Reuben Mondejar, a resident who organizes discussions for the center, said Walburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith and Loeb University Professor, Emeritus Archibald Cox were scheduled to speak to the group next month...
Fazio chided his colleagues for not having "the courage to speak out" in their own defense. He added, "There are Supreme Court justices who make less than their clerks the day after [the clerks] retire and go into private practice...