Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake of the Watergate scandals, Bok made the fledgling school of government one of his top priorities. Citing the "dolorous record" of government during those years, Bok called for "nothing less than the education of a new profession," in a 1973 speech...
While the address of Charles, Prince of Wales, was surprisingly engaging and Secretary of State George P. Shultz made an effort to justify the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration, only a speech by President Derek C. Bok on the role of the university in society offered any introspection. Even Bok's address was confined to generalities and did not address Harvard specifically. That address, for all its limitations, stood in stark contrast to the banality of the rest of the celebration...
Brennan's speech was the 26th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Lecture. He was the first sitting justice to deliver the annual address, which this year drew more than 1000 of those attending Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration...
Three years ago, Senator Christopher Dodd delivered a nationally televised speech on behalf of the Democratic Party opposing proposed aid to the government of El Salvador. "If Central America were not racked with poverty . . . hunger . . . injustice," argued Dodd, "there would be no revolution." That is the premise. And the conclusion? "Unless those oppressive conditions change" -- Can they? Can the U.S. will them to? -- "the region will continue to seethe with revolution." The choice? Either "to move with the tide of history" or "stand against...
Schmidt, 67, is not running in next January's parliamentary elections, and last week he bade farewell to politics with a two-hour speech in the Bundestag. Even in his farewell address, he got in a few glancing blows. Schmidt blasted Chancellor Helmut Kohl for following U.S. policy too slavishly, saying, "The Federal Republic must remain the friend and partner of the United States, but not a client...