Word: speech
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Steiner, who spoke of his days as House committee chairman, alluded to that great triumph in his Eliot House speech earlier this month, joking that he made sure, of course, that Maytag had no ties to South Africa...
...first looked like the manure of Reykjavik. Shultz, who rarely sees the press, in two days invited himself to sessions with editors of the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and all three TV networks, then returned from a quick trip to El Salvador for a Friday speech to the National Press Club. Regan logged 23 sessions with newsmagazines, columnists and other journalists, while Poindexter got himself interviewed by representatives of British, French, German, Turkish and Norwegian TV stations. He sought out American reporters so avidly that ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson, approached by Poindexter in a White House...
This week aides will take the show on the road, fanning out to 15 areas from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. Says Speakes, their dispatcher: "I told these guys they had to get an invitation to do a speech, then hold an open press conference, do a local television show and an editorial-board meeting with the local papers, and then they could come home." In every speech, interview and appearance, the spin doctors hammered at three main points...
...sense, the Soviet campaign is a mirror image of the Reagan Administration's p.r. blitz. It sought to pin the blame squarely on the U.S. for blocking a deal that Gorbachev said could have constituted a "turning point in world history." In his TV speech the Soviet leader at times took a condescending, almost derisive tone toward Reagan, portraying the President as a confused leader "demonstrating his complete ignorance and misunderstanding of . . . the socialist world." But Gorbachev was as insistent as any Reaganaut in denying that the summit had failed. Said Gorbachev: "The work that went on during the meeting...
Reagan recognized that prospect in his Baltimore speech last week, appealing to voters not to elect "liberals" who would "chop up" SDI and thus, in effect, hand Gorbachev, free of charge, what he could not buy at a very high price in Reykjavik. Speakes later conceded that the speech had been "too shrill." Yet those in Congress who believe SDI should be a bargaining chip do face a dilemma: if they cut back funding for the program, which has so far been valuable in wangling serious concessions from the Soviets, it loses its value as a bargaining chip...