Word: speech
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dems gathered in the morning on Monday carrying signs, coffee, and bagged lunches. They departed for Boston after a brief stump speech by President Eva Z. Lam ’10 in front of the John Harvard statue...
...rally, the Harvard contingent was particularly boisterous during a speech by Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, who has not publicly come out in favor of a public health insurance option. Harvard students were among the first to begin a chant of “Public option: do we have your vote?” that eventually drowned out the Congressman’s speech and led him to leave the microphone...
With the health-care debate essentially on hiatus during Congress' final week of recess, Obama's back-to-school speech to America's children, scheduled to air at noon E.T. Tuesday, on C-Span and Whitehouse.gov., became a tempest in an empty news cycle - or at least the letter from the Department of Education announcing the speech did. The missive urged principals and teachers to have their students write letters to themselves about how they could assist the President, a request that some saw as an attempt to inject politics into the classroom. Jim Greer, Florida's GOP party chairman...
...short time, right-wing radio and television hosts and conservative bloggers piled on, with some calling on parents to keep their children home from class as a form of protest; school districts in Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia said that they would not be showing the speech to students...
Matthew Young ’12, a founding member of the Harvard chapter’s steering committee, said in his speech that members will work with their counterparts at other colleges to lobby for change on issues ranging from local politics to healthcare...