Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nixon elaborated on his views about the Iran-contra affair in public last week, during a speech to Republican Governors gathered in Parsippany, N.J. He chided those sniping at the President, declaring, "His critics should get off his back so that the President does not lose two precious years in his quest for peace. Don't, don't weaken...
...contend that Casey, a speed-reader with an ability to assimilate complex information quickly, has one of the sharpest minds in the Government. "Bill Casey's the brightest guy I've met in my life," declares Stanley Sporkin, a former CIA counsel and now a federal judge. Casey's speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, explains that Casey "doesn't spill...
McFarlane discussed the Iranian overture with Shultz, Weinberger and Casey -- ironically, at about the time when Reagan, in a July 8 speech, was listing Iran as being first among a "confederation of terrorist states." In mid-July McFarlane, accompanied by Shultz, broached Kimche's ideas to Reagan in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the President was recuperating from colon surgery. Reagan saw the dangers of an arms-for-hostages swap, but also appreciated the value of new contact with Iran. He bought the idea that arms shipments would be intended to strengthen a group that might eventually be able to wean...
...after being released from a concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium by his 14-year-old son Shlomo Elisha, the Nobel laureate had to pause to regain his composure before addressing the audience of dignitaries...
...physical attributes. While the bluff O'Neill could growl out a rough response to Republican policy, Wright has a well-earned reputation as the House's foremost debater, and Reagan is already feeling the sting of his remarks. "Harry Truman said the buck stops here," he said in a speech last week, "but Ronald Reagan says put it on a credit card and pass it on to our grandchildren...