Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crises that inevitably arise in coordinating a string of events at half a dozen sites involving upwards of 20,000 people, including the Presidents of France and the United States. One day last week he was found fretting with Nancy Reagan's advance team over details of a speech and nursing a severe sting administered by Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who canceled the naturalization ceremony that was to be held at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington and televised nationally. Gesell said the planners were turning the "usual dignified naturalization court" into a "pageant" of dubious taste...
...rained on their parade. "If it drizzles," says Wolper, "we all get umbrellas. If it's a hurricane, we go the following evening." At the first ceremony, the signal to drop the French tricolor veil from Liberty's face set guns to booming and crowds to cheering during a speech by New York Senator William Evarts. Wolper's nightmare: the President hits the button to light the statue, but nothing happens. So a $250,000 backup system is in place...
...each opinion and stagger under the court's case load, Rehnquist is known for quickness and efficiency. On most days he leaves the court at 3 p.m. to go swimming. He finds time for stamp collecting and oil painting (indeed, he skipped the President's State of the Union speech last February to go to his painting class in Arlington, Va.). He once even tried his hand at writing a novel about the intrigues of a federal appeals court in the Southwest (it was rejected by several publishers). At times Rehnquist has appeared slightly bored with the insular routine...
...Free Speech. Although the Burger Court has often been accused by editorial writers of an antipress bias, the Rehnquist Court may make the pundits positively nostalgic. Burger wrote a number of pro-press decisions during his tenure. In the 1980 case of Richmond Newspapers Inc. vs. Virginia, for instance, Burger held that under the First Amendment the press and the public have the right to attend most criminal trials. Rehnquist dissented, as he usually does in cases protecting press freedom...
...Burger Court also tinkered with the barrier between church and state, though again in ways that left both sides dissatisfied. The same is true of its mixed treatment of free speech and the press. But after the announcement of his resignation last week, the Chief Justice told reporters that he had written more opinions favorable to the press than any other Justice: "The First Amendment isn't one damn bit more important to you than...