tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post748038695876772773..comments2024-01-12T11:26:35.176-05:00Comments on Working Stiffs: I Have a DreamWorking Stiffshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270595837074553752noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-83402791000355134162008-01-13T15:37:00.000-05:002008-01-13T15:37:00.000-05:00Nancy, thanks for the link to the MLK eulogy by RF...Nancy, thanks for the link to the MLK eulogy by RFK. I hadn't heard that before -- it was awesome. Also, thanks for the scoop on Peggy Noonan. I will have to read her book!<BR/><BR/>Mike, funny story about Ronald Reagan in 1975. Thanks for sharing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-29304354770106290022008-01-11T10:08:00.000-05:002008-01-11T10:08:00.000-05:00P.S. Great blog, by the way.P.S. Great blog, by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-69171960624844200672008-01-11T10:07:00.000-05:002008-01-11T10:07:00.000-05:00Lisa, Reagan's speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, wrote a...Lisa, Reagan's speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, wrote a non-fiction book about her work at the White House, and it's interesting--especially when she writes about her speechwriting process. But the politics behind her story still give me the shudders. Great book, though, for many reasons. <BR/><BR/>When I hear a really great political speech, I often check it out to see if Noonan is still freelancing--and she often is.<BR/><BR/>I recently read Robt. Kennedy's euolgy of MLK--given off the cuff (supposedly) the night King was assasinated. Kennedy climbed up in the back of a pickup truck in a black neighborhood to break the news that MLK had been shot---and his speech is truly eloquent, even quoted his favorite Greek poet.<BR/><BR/>Here, I jut found it online:<BR/>http://www.eulogyspeech.net/famous-eulogies/Martin-Luther-King-Eulogy-by-Robert-F-Kennedy.shtmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-82330442460925142082008-01-11T09:59:00.000-05:002008-01-11T09:59:00.000-05:00Lisa, thanks for reminding us to keep the importan...Lisa, thanks for reminding us to keep the important things in focus. Barack Obama did a similar thing in his Iowa Caucus' winners speech. I kept thinking: this guy has a great speechwriter! Jack Kennedy did, too. Ah, the power of words, in the right order.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-70271957493781260622008-01-11T08:03:00.000-05:002008-01-11T08:03:00.000-05:00I've always wondered what might have happened to t...I've always wondered what might have happened to the world had he lived. Such a great man and such a huge loss.Annettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02755947919433555176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-84420312218014056282008-01-11T07:50:00.000-05:002008-01-11T07:50:00.000-05:00Lisa,I heard Reagan give his "road" speech--the on...Lisa,<BR/><BR/>I heard Reagan give his "road" speech--the one he used to build his base nationwide--in 1975 as part of a group of young reporters covering a GOP fundraising pig-roast (I kid you not) on Maryland's Eastern Shore. (This was the same group that came to my apt. the year before to watch, and celebrate, Nixon's resignation.) We took notes, interviewed star-struck attendees, and left the function shaking our heads in a amazement that anyone would take this former actor seriously, reassurerd in our naive smugness that he'd never get into the White House. So much for political prognosticating!<BR/><BR/>Much is being made of Barack Obama's speaking skills--good article in today's P-G on that. He seems to be a worthy successor to the oratical tradition so exemplified by MLK. Thanks for the reminder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-20504099305944474652008-01-11T07:18:00.000-05:002008-01-11T07:18:00.000-05:00It is a great speech, isn't it?I wonder what he'd ...It is a great speech, isn't it?<BR/><BR/>I wonder what he'd think of the ways things are now.Joyce Tremelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00498392016497131719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33226151.post-24085106444103221842008-01-11T06:44:00.000-05:002008-01-11T06:44:00.000-05:00Thanks, Lisa, for reminding us that we need to hav...Thanks, Lisa, for reminding us that we need to have dreams and work towards them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com