Word: stumps
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...Brien will offer a fresh perspective to the usually serious Class Day keynote speech. Instead of the tried-and-true politician giving a tailored version of their usual stump speech, O'Brien can offer witty insights into the fact that--gasp--there is real life outside the wrought iron gates and red brick of Harvard. His own experience as a comedy writer in the competitive entertainment industry will perhaps encourage seniors hoping to be successful in Hollywood or any other cutthroat industry. As a fairly recent Harvard graduate, O'Brien has a unique position of being able to speak about...
...policy. When the son talks about the need for "certainty" above all in foreign affairs, he is channeling for Dad, whose diplomatic mantra was "The enemy is uncertainty." And in public, Dad is back in the motorcade, doing three stops a day, sometimes late into the night. On the stump he touts his son's record, but there's also some satisfaction in the way the worm has turned. "The country is crying out for a restoration of dignity and respect and honor that has been missing in the White House," the elder Bush said in Michigan two weeks...
Texas Governor George W. Bush always makes reference in his stump speech to a "gap of hope." It was never quite clear what he was talking about until last week, when he fell into it somewhere between New Hampshire and South Carolina...
...Questions, let's see, up first is up front." Alan L. Keyes '72--the arch-conservative Republican presidential candidate--is taking questions after a fiery stump speech. He's spent the past half hour attacking "the radical homosexual agenda" and condemning abortion as murder...
...Many who witness his wild pronouncements from the stump are left to wonder at his, to put it delicately, sense of balance...