Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here I go again," announced the grayer but still grinning former President. "And I'm still talking about the same things . . . about simple human justice and basic human rights." It was vintage Jimmy Carter, and the convention crowd greeted his opening-night speech with respectful enthusiasm. But not every one had been certain that he would be so well received. Troubled by last week's controversy surrounding his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, some Democrats feared that Carter's appearance would only lengthen the shadow of his Administration over Walter Mondale's candidacy. Indeed, Carter...
When Carter arrived in San Francisco, he may have still had his doubts. The Democratic National Committee had scheduled his speech for 8:30 p.m. E.D.T., a half-hour before the networks were to begin their coverage. At Lance's request, D.N.C. officials rearranged the schedule so that Carter could appear in prime time. The welcome response to Carter's address alleviated everyone's fears. By week's end there was even some talk of Carter's playing an active role in the Mondale-Ferraro campaign...
...Colorado Senator Gary Hart descended from the podium and plunged into the crowd after his Wednesday-night speech, the hopeful strains of Chariots of Fire washed over Moscone Center. The next night Democratic Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale, battle-scarred from his primary brawls, strode triumphantly to the platform and raised his arms like a prizefighter. The song: Theme from Rocky...
Thatcher has come under heavy fire for not trying harder to resolve the dispute. The criticism apparently has rankled. In a blistering speech before her party's parliamentary members last week, Thatcher likened the battle with Scargill to the war with Argentina. "We had to fight an enemy with out in the Falklands," she said. "We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is more difficult to fight." Nor can Thatcher's troubles be dismissed as old-fashioned class warfare. Many of her own Tory backbenchers remain restive over the government's performance...
Humphrey exploded onto the national scene with a powerful speech before the 1948 convention that put the Democrats irrevocably on the civil rights train. Winning a Senate seat that year, Humphrey continued brashly in Washington. He denounced the seniority system, accused his conservative colleagues of ties to special interests, introduced hundreds of progressive bills. He got nowhere. Something besides conviction was necessary, he decided, and he learned the Senate skill of log rolling. With it, he guided through nearly all the major liberal bills of the 1960s, some of which he had proposed years earlier: the 1963 nuclear test...