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...statement I never made. I never said the elderly have a duty to die. I said," We all have a duty to die." It was the Denver Post that changed the "we" to "you" and added the elderly and terminally ill, to whom I had not referred in my speech. The Post ran a -correction later, after being confronted with its own transcript, but the damage had already been done, and the national news services (and TIME) carried the misquote. Is it possible for politicians to discuss serious subjects without risking even more serious misunderstandings...
...speech on the eve of the Tennessee primary, Hart took the huge risk of reminding voters about something most of his fellow Democrats devoutly wish they would forget: the impression of weakness and ineptitude left by what Hart called "the Carter-Mondale Administration." In particular, he said, "Carter-Mondale actually gave us an America held hostage to the ayatullahs of the world." Mondale replied that Iran had eventually returned all the hostages alive and that during the crisis Hart had failed to suggest any way that their release could have been secured earlier; by midweek Hart rather lamely asserted that...
...ideologue who can somehow manage to sleep through crises, but rather as the pragmatic peacemaker who can travel half the globe with nary a yawn or a stumble. Stopping over in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the return flight, he described his trip in terms that sounded suspiciously like a campaign speech. "My visit to China has convinced me that our future is bright," he told 500 community leaders packed into a local auditorium. "America is on the edge of a new era of peace, prosperity and commerce." Sounding a bit like the Great Helmsman, Reagan expansively predicted that Americans can "expect...
...terra cotta army protecting the tomb of the Emperor Qin, warned that the two nations must "escape the fate of the buried armies of Xian-the buried warriors who stood for centuries frozen in time, frozen in unknowing enmity." The Fudan students, most of whom understood English, interrupted his speech nine times with applause. At the end, Reagan, his actor's head bobbing, clapped back. He told the students, "I just go home with a dream in my heart that we have started a friendship between two great peoples...
Chinese authorities, who had censored his anti-Soviet remarks from national television broadcasts the week before, beamed his Fudan speech live on Shanghai television, though without translation. Official press accounts the next day, however, omitted his references not only to the Declaration of Independence, but to the Bible and the contributions of two Chinese immigrants to the U.S., Architect I.M. Pei and Computer Entrepreneur An Wang...