Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photo session with Retton and the other Olympic medalists, Reagan manages to come off like a kindly Uncle Sam. Even when his rhetoric turns maudlin and manipulative, he seems sincere, for the President believes the patriotic pieties simply and intensely. He gives himself goose bumps. In a speech at the American Legion convention two weeks ago, Reagan went right to the heart of the matter. "What a change from only a few years ago, when patriotism seemed so out of style," he said. "I'm not sure anyone really
...three large cable networks (total bill: $750,000) to air what may be the slickest, most ambitious political ad ever made. The centerpiece of the commercial was the 18-minute film used to introduce Reagan at the Republican Convention; the remainder consisted of highlights from his speech and footage of the delirious reception he received from the delegates. The film was studded with staged vignettes of American life: a smiling old couple, a wedding, a sunrise, a house under construction. Over one, an announcer says, "America's back." Explains Phil Dusenberry, a Madison Avenue creative director and Reagan advertising...
...Mondale doesn't have to take a back seat to anyone. But he doesn't handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo showed in his keynote speech to the convention that the Democrats can convey an uplifting vision of America: his notion is nation as family, in contrast to every-man-for-himself G.O.P. individualism...
...Cuomo and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, sought to cool passions with a well-reasoned defense of their own-and by implication, Ferraro's-refusal to seek laws that would impose Catholic moral positions on all of U.S. society. Cuomo, more restrained than in his stirring Democratic Convention keynote speech but just as articulate, drew a standing ovation from an overflow crowd at the University of Notre Dame after a 53-minute discourse in which he asked a pointed question of his fellow Catholics: "Are we asking government to make criminal what we believe to be sinful because we ourselves...
...roughly one-third of the population is Catholic and the pro-life movement is strong, was far less gentle. Worried about possible violence, Scranton police substituted plainclothes officers for volunteer drivers in the Ferraro motorcade, and a state police helicopter monitored the route. She faced bitter signs at her speech site in a downtown mall. FERRARO-A CATHOLIC JUDAS, read one. I'M GLAD FERRARO WASN'T MY MOTHER, said another, held by a five-year...