Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about time that a new generation of Americans realized that we have to kindle a new spirit," Kennedy said in his victory speech, which restated his commitment to social services and to his belief that "the Federal government can be used as a catalyst" to "put something back into this country that has given us so very much...
...controversy began last summer, when Jacobs heard Robertson make a speech supporting military action by U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua. Jacobs thought McCloskey, a Korean War veteran who had been assigned to the same unit as Robertson, had once singled out the evangelist as a hawkish conservative who had avoided combat service. Jacobs, who served as a combat infantryman with the Marines in Korea, asked McCloskey to provide greater detail...
...over its decisions and accusing the majority of failure to observe the intentions of the men who wrote the Constitution. Despite setbacks last term, when the court rejected Justice Department positions on such issues as affirmative action and abortion, Meese is still a man on the offensive. In a speech last week at Tulane University in New Orleans, he escalated his challenge to the high bench's authority. Quite simply, he said, Supreme Court decisions are not so supreme after...
...context as well as the content of Meese's conclusions disturbed many legal observers. His Justice Department has been a pugnacious one that has not always seemed sensitive to minority interests and individual liberties. One day after the Tulane speech, Meese continued his push on another front, endorsing the contentious findings of his commission on pornography and creating a special group within the Justice Department to pursue obscenity prosecutions. But it was the Tulane speech that raised the most hackles. Said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "It reinforces Mr. Meese's growing reputation...
Meese only cited one Supreme Court case in his speech, Cooper v. Aaron. That 1958 ruling declared the Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education--barring school segregation--to be "the supreme law of the land." In other words, school segregation in any part of the country was outlawed. Meese, a graduate of Yale Law School, disagrees with that interpretation of the court's power...