Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interspersed with the memories, spoken with the particular whispering intimacy of Jacqueline Kennedy's voice, was constantly this effort to make the statement she had asked me to come and hear. Her message was quite simple...
...Solzhenitsyn had talked to us-to a few of his neighbors in that village in Vermont-three or four of those who respect and admire him throughout the country-he would not have spoken those sentences at Harvard. He would have learned that we know who we are and what we have to become. He would have learned that we have not lost our will as a people -that it is precisely our will as a people which makes us true believers in that human spirit for which he means to speak...
...voters have spoken...
...editorialists may have spoken too soon. As Wallace himself had warned, in a valedictory published in the Post three days earlier: "One of the reasons, I suppose, that I have had such a long political career is that every time I finished a campaign and sat down to rest, here would come the Post, barking at my feet...
...aides had privately suggested that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had lied to the President. Washington's allies were wondering just who was speaking for the Administration. Was it National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who seemed willing to match the Soviets decibel for decibel? Or was it softer-spoken Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, ever the conciliator? Unmistakably, it was time for Carter himself to speak up and clear...