Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis, the President canceled two political trips: one a quickie visit to the Northwest, the other a four-day cross-country swing. He also scaled down his plans for his formal announcement of candidacy this week. Instead of the extravaganza originally planned, he will probably make a low-key speech from the Oval Office, then briefly drop by a fund-raising dinner in Washington...
...care. He spent a whole afternoon reviewing the fine points of U.S. policy on Iran with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance and fielding practice questions?about 25 in all ? thrown at him by aides. Former Imagemaker Jerry Rafshoon rehearsed Carter on the brief speech that would open the news conference...
What especially angered Kissinger's critics was a speech he made on Nov. 20 in Austin to a conference of the Republican Governors Association. He had concluded in a conciliatory spirit by saying: "I think all anyone can do is support the Administration and present the picture of a united America in the face of that challenge." But what caused resentment were other remarks that seemed to question the Administration's wisdom and will. "The biggest foreign policy debacle for the United States in a generation was the collapse of the government and of the Shah of Iran...
...against the U.S. with strategic weapons. While the destruction from a theater nuclear exchange would be tremendous, it would still fall far short of the nuclear holocaust that would almost inevitably consume East and West. This reasoning was at the heart of Henry Kissinger's widely noted September speech in Brussels. Kissinger argued that the American strategic arsenal alone cannot be relied upon to defend Europe, since to do so would almost certainly elicit massive Soviet retaliation against...
...social worker and possessed of a degree it took him ten years to earn, Sid resembles everybody's Jewish grandfather, with his shock of white hair, and grey eyes framed by sensible glasses, except for the "groovyisms" of this year and last with which he sprinkles his speech. He designed a non-profit dental program in Vermont and health center in Rhode Island while his wife worked as a nurse and a consultant...