Word: speech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Democrats, eliciting war cries and hoots from a convention that seemed to smell blood. The best-received barbs, and the constant efforts to link Walter Mondale to the Carter presidency, reflected a conservative ideology that relished its moment of triumph within the party. In notable contrast to his acceptance speech in Detroit four years ago, Reagan endorsed the tendentious tone with an unusually sharp attack of his own. He called the election "the clearest political choice of half a century," involving "two fundamentally different ways of governing-their Government of pessimism, fear and limits, or ours of hope, confidence...
...welcomed Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the G.O.P.'s 1964 presidential nominee and at 75 still its grandest old conservative. As Goldwater, who has undergone surgery for heart and hip ailments in recent years, limped to the podium, few in the hall needed reminding that an electrifying televised campaign speech on Goldwater's behalf 20 years ago by a Hollywood has-been had launched Ronald Reagan on his political career. Reagan aides had hoped that Goldwater would not dwell too much on his old crusades, but the Senator was unswayed by pleas that he not repeat the most famous...
...that the President's 55-min. speech disappointed his listeners. On the contrary, they interrupted it 95 times with applause. They answered with hearty choruses of "No!" when Reagan asked whether they had any doubts that the Democrats would "make Government bigger than ever and deficits even worse, raise unemployment" and "make unilateral and unwise concessions to the Soviet Union." In fact, they were so eager to be roused that they would not allow Reagan to complete one of his punch lines. Saying that he was tempted to compare Democratic spending habits to those of a drunken sailor, Reagan...
...President had been nettled by the Democrats' searing appraisal of Reagancomics in San Francisco. More than half the speech was devoted to defending his record. Then he set forth a particularly stark delineation of the choice between the Democratic plan for the future and his own, using a formulation similar to the sharp "war and peace" alternatives that Jimmy Carter envisioned on the 1980 campaign trail. Said Reagan: "Isn't our choice really not one of left or right but of up or down-down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more Government largesse...
...Reagan noted near the end of his speech, "Four years ago we raised a banner of bold colors-no pale pastels." Certainly there was nothing muted about what the President, or his party colleagues and their platform, had to say last week. As the ardent cheering for Reagan's acceptance speech swelled, even the balloons behaved. Red ones fell from nets on the ceiling, white ones rose from the floor...