Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first guest speaker, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, comes down squarely in favor of "duty, honor, country, courage...
Compared directly with Carter, Kennedy is rated a better speaker, more knowledgeable about how to get things done, more experienced, more dynamic, more attractive looking, a better campaigner with a better staff. He is not only credited with having a better personality but also, despite the continuing echoes of Chappaquiddick, with being better "in times of crisis." He is, however, rated less trustworthy, less honest and forthright, less morally upright, and not as good a family man as Carter...
...week's end, Bush also demonstrated that he may be a better stump speaker than Baker. Both candidates showed up at a G.O.P. forum in Portland, Me., where Bush won so much support with a blood-stirring campaign speech that he narrowly upset Baker in a presidential straw vote. The Tennessean had been expected to win because he had the backing of the state's popular Republican Senator William Cohen. Baker cannot afford many more such defeats if he is to build the kind of national consensus that he has so skillfully crafted in the Senate...
...fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded...
...Yastrzemski's. Like one man. One frustrated, effaced, proud, loser of a man, whose endless beers never turn to champagne in the Causeway St. bar after the game, after the seasons, ever since 1918. Up on the wall behind the bartender and mountains of bottles are portraits of Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Jim Lonborg, Carl Yastrzemski, and John F. Kennedy. They all got away...