Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost every speech he makes, Bush says he opposes almost all abortions while Dukakis does...
Bush, trying to avoid overconfidence, campaigned in Fulton, Mo., and invoked the memory of Winston Churchill at the Westminster College where Churchill delivered his 1946 "iron curtain" speech warning of Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe...
...have a realistic chance of governing again, it must embrace unified and politically acceptable positions, watched it succumb to yet more division. Many supporters echoed the hopes of John Edmonds, head of the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union, that Kinnock "has won the party by his speech." But another senior union boss warned, "If Neil retreats from the gunfire of Todd and drops any part of his reform program, he'll be out as leader. Not tomorrow, not next week or next month. But before the next election...
Afterward, few seemed to care or remember that Bentsen had been evasive in answering questions about his policy differences with Dukakis. Or that many of his responses too were recited verbatim from his stump speech. But never mind. Lloyd Bentsen looked and acted presidential -- indeed, to many he seemed more presidential than either George Bush or Michael Dukakis...
...next two days, like people after a storm, Republicans waited anxiously to see if the roof would cave in. The Bush campaign started to edge away from Quayle. During his first speech after the debate, Bush failed even to mention his running mate. But Ronald Reagan proclaimed during a White House photo opportunity that Bentsen's J.F.K. line was a "cheap shot." Responded Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich: "When the Republicans call something a cheap shot, you know you've scored a direct hit." Republicans tried to make a virtue out of necessity by having Quayle dub himself a "lightning...