Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's speech in the Great Hall of the People, Chinese officials promised, was to be broadcast in full on TV, even though it had not been cleared with Chinese authorities in advance. But before it aired that evening, 17 segments were deleted. Among them...
...speech schedule required the hotel staff to serve and clear the meal in 80 minutes. In addition to the highly drilled waiters (required by the hotel to be at least 6 ft tall) Mompezat trained 76 hotel chefs and 120 kitchen staffers to assist in the 4½ hours of cooking and carving...
That night, only hours later, Bobby Kennedy was giving his victory speech in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. David Kennedy was sitting up late, alone in his hotel room, watching. He was doubtless in a daze of pride and gratitude and excitement. The television cameras followed Bobby Kennedy off the platform and back through the hotel kitchen toward an elevator. As David watched on TV, Sirhan Sirhan shot his father in the head. The cameras focused interminably on the chaos, on the body and the head lying in a pool of blood. In the confusion, no one came...
...black George Wallace-a Rodney Dangerfield. He wants respect. It's a scream for attention. He has no real program. He doesn't know what he's doing." In private, one of Jackson's Democratic rivals is almost as caustic. "There's still one speech Jackson hasn't given yet," he says. "We still haven't seen his agenda...
Jackson worked his way through the crowd and into a campaign headquarters ("outreach center," in his terminology), and campaign workers arranged the scene for his speech. An aide pointed to the spot where the candidate would stand and shouted, "Rainbow, rainbow!" It was a signal to another assistant to plunge into the predominantly black throng and look for whites who could be brought up front to stand near Jackson, so that photographs would show the preacher as leader of a multiracial rainbow coalition...