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Discarding his prepared text, Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan said that peace and freedom go together ("like ham and eggs, I almost said"), that we need "to mobilize the moral and spiritual forces of the world" in a Project Mankind. In an interview prior to his speech, Williams said Kennedy would get a National Peace Agency bill through Congress, and that unilateral steps toward disarmament, except for a test moratorium "get onto dangerous ground...
Kennedy on the speaker's rostrum is tense and brief. Although his speechwriters work hard at their craft, Kennedy makes so many cuts and interpolations that advance copies of his text are almost useless. Says Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: "The difference between Stevenson and Kennedy is that Adlai puts subordinate clauses in all the speeches you write and Jack takes them out." Frequently, sensing the mood of his audience. Kennedy discards his prepared text altogether and speaks fluently off the cuff (both Nixon and Kennedy are at their best in ad-lib situations ). His speeches are breathlessly brief: never more...
...stand, Nixon is relaxed and meticulous. He is more practiced than Kennedy at endorsing all the local politicians, quick to freshen up his text with an impromptu reference (a Democratic campaign billboard in Pennsylvania last week caught his eye and gave him a handy introduction to a speech). Among the throngs of greeters (ably abetted by his constant companion, Pat Nixon), he is friendly and easy, shaking as many hands as are offered, stopping to chat frequently. Old folks, invalids and children get special attention. Nixon is always dignified and cool-he has never been caught in a really embarrassing...
...spring the Committees suggested "destruction of thermonuclear weapons" as an "independent American initiative." In the final Statement, however, the passages on unilateral disarmament were omitted; the new emphasis is on "unilateral steps toward disarmament." For purposes of comparison, the working paper position of unilateral disarmament is included the following text, set off in and small type...
Giant's Promise. At the stadium,putting his prepared text aside, Kennedy delivered what reporters agreed was one of his finest political speeches. He spoke of the perils and problems confronting the U.S. "I don't run for the office of the President to tell you what you want to hear. I run for the office of the presidency because in a dangerous time we need to be told what we must do if we are going to maintain our freedom and the freedom of those who depend upon us." Then Kennedy hit his campaign theme of work...