Word: speech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter's standing with the public-and partly as a result, with his party-is much improved. When he stepped up to deliver his speech at Cook Convention Center in Memphis, he received a warm welcome from close to 4,000 Democrats. After a blistering attack on the Republicans and the Nixon Administration, Carter said: "We Democrats pledged to have a Government as good as the American people, and that is what we are doing." He added: "Ours is a party of practical dreamers." National Democratic Chairman John White added some effusive words of his own to the party...
...paradigm of the Jew from the Diaspora returned to the promised land. And if her audience did not immediately sense that, Golda made sure they soon did. "I, the daughter of Moshe Mabovitch, who was just an ordinary carpenter . . ." was one of her favorite ways of beginning a speech. What she had not experienced in person, she assumed by proxy. Diplomats emerged from interviews with a stunned look, complaining that all they had wanted to do was to discuss a minor customs regulation; instead they had found themselves confronted with the weight of 50 years of the Jewish struggle...
Unmoved, Begin flew to the Norwegian capital late last week to receive his commemorative gold medal from Mrs. Aage Lionaes, head of the peace prize committee, in the high-walled medieval Akershus. In his acceptance speech, Begin quoted the prophets Isaiah and Micah ("And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. . ."). He then rhetorically posed an issue that bedevils everyone concerned with the 30-year-old Middle East struggle: "not whether, but when this vision [of peace] will become a reality." Begin did not give a definite answer. Instead, he acknowledged an intellectual debt...
Charles Engelhard backed up his anti-apartheid words with action. Richard Tofel '79 of The Harvard Independent (November 30, 1978, page 3) reports that Engelhard's intervention was directly responsible for obtaining the visa that enabled Robert Kennedy '48 to deliver his famous 1966 Capetown anti-apartheid speech...
...disagreement within the administration as to whether the ACSR is supposed to be a representative body. In response to criticism of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, Mr. Steiner said last week that the ACSR is not supposed to be representative of the Harvard Community. However, in his 1978 commencement speech, which of course reached a much larger audience, President Bok claimed that the ACSR is representative. Regardless of President Bok's public relations, I maintain that the ACSR is not representative, but certainly should...