Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advance people, who smoothly guide the candidates and their families through the convention, sometimes have to do more than organize. On Monday night during former President Jimmy Carter's speech, Kitty Dukakis, worn out from the excitement of the week, started nodding off to sleep. After consulting with other staff people, her advance woman made her way over to the governor's wife and gently poked her in order to ask a strategic question...
Jackson headquarters are at the Marriot Marquis. In the lobby, members of the Rainbow Coalition offer T-shirts for $10 and hawk copies of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech for three bucks...
...escaped the attention of politicians, including presidential candidates. Says Democratic Contender Michael Dukakis: "We should explore with the Soviet Union and other nations the feasibility and practicality of joint space-engineering activities that might pave the way to a joint manned mission to Mars." In a Huntsville, Ala., speech, Vice President George Bush urged a "long-term commitment to manned and unmanned exploration of the solar system. There is much to be done -- further exploration of the moon, a mission to Mars...
...least, that is what Jackson would like everyone to think. In fact, he has been coming up empty-handed of late. The platform and rules concessions he has won from Michael Dukakis since June hardly matter very much. Jackson wanted to deliver the keynote speech or name an alternate. But Party Chairman Paul Kirk chose Texas Treasurer Ann Richards instead, causing Jackson to fume, quite rightly, that he at least deserved to be consulted before the choice was made...
Observers said the speech by Bush, the certain Republican nominee for president, would emphasize his foreign policy credentials and statesmanship...