Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooper said in his speech, "We need a rebirth of spirit in America, and it will not come from deserting our commitment in Vietnam." The crowd cheer-ed enthusiastically for each speaker, but the greatest response was to Vietnam ??teran Dennis Hyte who said...
...unidentified man in his early 20's was assaulted by the crowd when he responded to one speaker's reference to the November 15 march on Washington by shouting. "There were 300,000 in Washinpton, and only a handful here." Boston police placed him under arrest for drunkenness, and jailed him in the Charles Street jail...
Stressing the need for outside political pressure for change in this area, one speaker said that "the money could be cut off any day and our discussion here would be totally irrelevant...
...turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...
...guerrilla theatricals intended to raise consciousness generally, and a little hell besides. This fall they entered a secret candidate for Miss America, but their elaborate plans to have her denounce the contest from within fizzled. At Grinnell College in Iowa last February coeds stripped to the buff when a speaker expounded the Playboy philosophy. To draw attention to their cause, women in Chicago are concentrating on what they call "little dainties," such as elaborately opening doors for men and lighting their cigarettes...