Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations at will." Describing Scalia as "the worst enemy of free speech in America...
...Reagan got on well with the affable Justice, but the President was worried about Rehnquist's health. Five years ago Rehnquist was hospitalized to overcome an addiction to a powerful painkiller he had been taking for his chronically bad back. At the time, court employees noticed that Rehnquist's speech was slurred and that he seemed to be having mental lapses. In his interview with Reagan, however, Rehnquist volunteered that he had long since kicked his addiction and could offer a clean bill of health from his doctors. Somewhat to his aides' surprise, the President offered Rehnquist...
...Goldwater conservative who opposed an integration plan for Phoenix public schools in 1967. Brought back to Washington to the Nixon Justice Department by another Phoenix lawyer, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Rehnquist was enlisted in the Administration's battle against student radicals, whom Rehnquist described in a 1969 speech as "the new barbarians." He helped devise legal grounds to round up and detain antiwar ) protesters during the 1971 May Day demonstrations. Later that year Nixon rewarded Rehnquist for his efforts by putting him on the high court...
Roosevelt recalled the vow Kennedy made in his January announcement speech to debate his opponents "one at a time, or all at once...
...hand, television unites in common perceptions a disparate people spread across a broad continent. Such an immediate and inclusive forum would seem an unquestioned boon to Democracy. Such is not entirely the case. Although television appears to reflect marvelous diversity, it in fact fosters uniformity. Varieties of American speech, fashions and opinions are modified toward sameness by the examples of what millions of Americans watch. It also seems to me that television achieves part of its power by appealing to human weaknesses. The habit of viewing it does not encourage reflection or contemplation. The eye is trained to crave novelty...