Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event was held in science Center D, in front of such a large audience that Kirchhoff, who is also a crimson editor, said the room "felt like Ark" in his opening speech...
Hard-liners called that speech the worst name they could think of--"sentimental"--and made noise about how real men know that foreign policy has always been a choice of lesser evils. But that's exactly what Clinton was saying last week. He knows from his experience in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995 that Milosevic understands only force. The dirty little secret is that it's taken Clinton several years to realize that. It's impossible to know if last year's Balkan bloodshed might have been diminished had Clinton acted faster. But when Milosevic massed troops on the Kosovo...
...Clinton has absorbed the lessons of force, it barely shows. His speech came late in the game, as the bombs began to fly; his aides were feeding his last fixes into the TelePrompTer with five minutes to go. He didn't look comfortable when he spoke, and the tension didn't abate later. On Friday, when his aides asked him about another matter, he took their heads off. That's revealing...
President Clinton's speech last week about the bombing raids he had ordered on Serbia followed in a long tradition of such pronouncements from the Oval Office. Apart from the cut of their suits, not all that much has changed over the decades: the desks are clearer, the future just as cloudy...
...were a speech writer for President Bush. Did you know Fawn Hall...