Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard son whipped out a clip of his own, quaking Reagan's speech from the previous day in which the President acknowledged that taxes would have to be increased if needed at a last resort...
...sorts for 1984. Reagan's enthusiasm grew as he got into his subject. His color heightened. He leaned forward from his couch and worked his hands. Far below his 26th-floor hotel room, the hubbub of the Republican National Convention was rising in anticipation of his acceptance speech that night. Reagan already was far beyond that in his mind, building "America's party" and an "opportunity society...
...Democrats in mind, Reagan did not say. But he had noticed the new Democratic emphasis on home and community. He was watching television, he said, as Walter Mondale gave his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. When Mondale reached the heights of his eloquence about flag, family and fiscal restraint, Reagan said, he turned to Nancy and asked, "Didn't I write that...
Baker has become the most effective majority leader since Lyndon Johnson. With a polemical convention speech last week, he set out to prove that he had the requisite "fire in the belly" to run for national office and stir crowds. He is quitting the Senate this year to get away from the Washington grind and, as he put it, "reestablish a more distant and civilian perspective." Dole hopes to succeed Baker as majority leader. Their candidacies in 1988 could test whether an effective legislator can also be a popular vote getter...
...same time, however, Secretary of State George Shultz last week was taking a major public swipe at the Sandinistas. During his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, he charged that Nicaragua's November vote looks "more and more like sham elections on the Soviet model." As Shultz spoke, U.S. warships, including the battleship Iowa, cruised off the Nicaraguan coast. Their mission: to serve as reminders of the Reagan Administration's determination to stop the spread of Marxism-Leninism from Nicaragua to the rest of Central America. Meanwhile, leaders of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic...