Word: speech
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...President, of course, will not phrase his State of the Union speech in quite such baldly political terms. But when he steps before a joint session of Congress and national-TV cameras Wednesday night, Reagan is expected to sound the themes he will be repeating throughout the 1984 campaign. His official announcement of his own political plans is scheduled for Sunday night, and Reagan still refuses to confirm publicly what all his aides assume to be as sure as sunrise: he will run for reelection. In any case, the address was drafted, primarily by Reagan, as a political document...
...result is that the speech may be as notable for what it does not say as for what it does. At most, Reagan will announce only cosmetic steps to reduce the federal deficit, now estimated at roughly $185 billion for the 1985 fiscal year. He has ruled out pressing for deep cuts in spending this year: that would only rile voters to no avail, since Congress would reject the cuts anyway. The President also has decided against any significant tax increase this year, and might pledge publicly to oppose any boosts. But he also might calculate that such...
Indeed, just about the only headline-catching initiative in the State of the Union speech will be a proposal to put into orbit a permanent space station filled by rotating crews of astronauts. Otherwise, said one speech drafter, "this is not going to be a litany of new programs or a listing of everything that's going on department by department. We told the Cabinet to forget it." Instead, a draft that Reagan sent back to his aides last week, after personally rewriting two-thirds of it, stressed his accomplishments and hopes for the future. One aide summarized...
...campus this fall actually had one serious political disruption, when hecklers shouted down Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 in a November 17 speech at banders Theater. And questionable behavior by the Harvard Band and initiation practices by the P Eita speakers club precipitated College crackdowns which dress some student complaints...
...Weinberger protest at any time in the future, we will be asked to withdraw from the College. We asked if Big Brother planned a mass expulsion of the 600 + students who protested Weinberger, or were we two communists a test case in Epps' drive to crush free speech at Harvard, Cohen replied that there were a total of 10 students who Epps had lined up tutors to "warn." Should we continue to exercise our democratic rights to protest (which we unreservedly will), we will be tried by the administration's kangaroo court, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), which...