Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finance her first House campaign in 1978, Ferraro revealed, she was aghast to learn she needed Zaccaro to co-sign for a loan. In order to establish her technical financial autonomy and thus avoid such humiliations, Zaccaro and she began filing separate tax returns. "I can give you a speech about how hard it is for women to raise money to run for office," Ferraro said...
...small ups and downs, but her public triumph sustained her. When Press Secretary Pat Bario was fired, the candidate was magnanimous. "I love her," she said of her ex-spokeswoman. "She's terrific. Evidently there was a little chemistry that didn't work." Ferraro's main campaign event, a speech to 3,000 members of the American Federation of Teachers in Washington, was a cinch to be successful. She is a former teacher and AFT member. "Normally I begin a speech by saying I'm delighted to be here. After this week," she told the cheering, chanting union members...
...Wife Nancy on a giant closed-circuit television monitor visible throughout the hall, Ronald Reagan, Rex Republicans, brought his G.O.P. court roaring to its feet. Formally accepting his nomination to a second term, Reagan could hardly restrain the ecstatic ritual chants of "Four more years!" that repeatedly interrupted his speech. While savoring the moment, he finally pointed to his watch and reminded his audience, "It's getting late...
Reagan was definitely on the offensive when, in a recent speech stuffed with the land of provocative language he calls "raw meat," he slashed at the Democrats. "Those responsible for punishing America with record inflation, record interest rates, record tax increases ... farm embargoes, gas lines ... weakness abroad and phony excuses about malaise," Reagan declared, "are the last people who should give sermonettes about misery, unfairness and compassion. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy...
...Devroy of the Gannett News Service was in Santa Barbara with much of the rest of the White House press corps when word began to circulate that President Reagan had joked about bombing the Soviet Union while testing his microphone for a radio speech. Two TV networks, CBS and Cable News Network, had the quip on tape but felt obliged not to air it because of a longstanding agreement with other broadcasters that Reagan's warmup sessions were off the record. As a print reporter, however, Devroy was under no such constraint. After hunting down what Reagan had said...