He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed the campus on September 24 and the speech itself was televised worldwide.

As the President prepares for a televised speech, he thanks Snake for saving him.

On the evening of 24 January 1964, the failure of the Kenyan Prime Minister to appear on television, where 11th Kenya Rifles junior soldiers had been expecting a televised speech and hoping for a pay rise announcement, caused the men to mutiny.

On March 5 Syrian leader Assad declared in a televised speech that Syria would withdraw its forces to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, and then to the border between Syria and Lebanon.

Menzies ' policy speech was televised on 12 November 1963, a method that " had never before been used in Australia ".

* September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.

* September 5 – U. S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park, in his first televised speech to the nation.

Reagan gave a well-received televised speech supporting Goldwater ; it was so popular that Goldwater's advisors had it played on local television stations around the nation.

In a televised speech on Friday, 17 June, King Mohammed VI announced a series of constitutional reforms, to be put to a national referendum on 1 July.

In a televised speech later, he referred to the loyalist strikers and their supporters as " spongers " who expected Britain to pay for their lifestyles.

Charles de Gaulle, in the aftermath televised speech of June 7, acknowledged that " This explosion was provoked by groups in revolt against modern consumer and technical society, whether it be the communism of the East or the capitalism of the West.

* November 13 – Vice-President Spiro Agnew, in a televised speech from Des Moines, Iowa, sirs up a national controversy by attacking the network news commentaries.

Because the peace was considered Sadat's personal peace — not Egypt's — and because the traitor had now paid with his life, Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor, was able to declare in a televised speech several hours after the assassination that " all treaties and charters " would be honored.

The benchmarks include a televised speech from Hussein declaring the country's intentions to disarm, and accounting for Iraq's chemical weapons stockpiles and unmanned drones.

* In a televised speech, U. S. President George W. Bush gives Saddam Hussein 48 hours to go into exile or face war.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the opening day address, and as a reflection of the wide range of technological innovation on parade at the fair, his speech was not only broadcast over the various radio networks but also was televised.

Kenny's first major televised conference speech in November 2003 was well received by the media and, for many, marked a turn in Fine Gael's fortunes as it began to offer more vigorous opposition to Ahern's government.

* 1 p. m. EDT: President Bush makes a televised speech announcing the attack and discussing further US's intentions, including humanitarian aid.

After cutting short a two-day trip to Iran, Ceauşescu held a televised speech on 20 December, in which he condemned the events of Timişoara, considering them an act of foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Romania and an aggression through foreign secret services on Romania's sovereignty, and declared National Curfew, convoking a mass meeting in his support in Bucharest for the next day.

The facts of the underlying dispute are as follows: when King made his speech publicly to a large audience both live and televised it had not been submitted to the Register of Copyright to obtain federal copyright protection.

Other free-to-air televised broadcasts include: the Treasurer's Budget speech and the Leader of the Opposition's reply to the Budget two days later ; the opening of Parliament by the Queen ; the swearing-in of Governors-General ; and addresses to the Parliament by visiting heads of state.

In a televised speech given in Memphis, in which he responded to such charges, Kefauver put on a coonskin cap and proudly proclaimed, " I may be a pet coon, but I'm not Boss Crump's pet coon.

In 1974, she made an influential, televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the process of impeachment of Richard Nixon, Johnson's successor as President.

* 1947 – Proceedings of the U. S. Congress are televised for the first time.

* 1961 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the " military-industrial complex ".

Although he was considered innocent and released on 22 December 2001, he was declared a terrorist by U. S. President George W. Bush in his televised address on 23 December 2001.

** In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U. S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that " there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe " ( there is at the time ).

* October 22 – In a televised address, U. S. President John F. Kennedy announces to the nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

* The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the election for the U. S. Senate, which is the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is ever televised.

In 1960, having established residence earlier in Bethesda, Maryland, Smith chaired the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon.

However since the mid-20th century, Jamaica has increasingly developed stronger social and economic ties with the United States and the increasing popularity of U. S. cultural offerings including film, music, and televised dramas and comedies, exposure to American English has been increasing steadily.

ABC, which televised the fatal bout, ended its boxing broadcasts and other U. S. networks followed ; the sport would not return to free television until the 1970s.

On August 17, 2008, Ronstadt received a tribute by various artists including BeBe Winans and Wynonna Judd, when she was honored with the Trailblazer Award, presented to her by Plácido Domingo at the 2008 ALMA Awards, a ceremony later televised in the U. S. on ABC.

* January 3 – Proceedings of the U. S. Congress are televised for the first time.

After showing the destruction of Daryaei's residence during a televised press conference, Ryan threatens to launch a tactical nuclear strike on Tehran unless those responsible for the attacks are extradited to the U. S. to face charges.

* September 12-In an internationally televised address, U. S. president George W. Bush announced a " war against terrorism " intent on targeting both terrorists and those who harbored terrorists.

He was one of the famous guests in attendance during the historical ceremonies of the late U. S. President Ronald Reagan's televised state funeral.

Similarly, in 1991, when Shi ' a across Iraq revolted against Hussein's regime ( partially in response to the televised rallying call to do so by U. S. President George H. W. Bush ), the U. S. justification for ultimately staying out of the revolt and allowing Hussein's security forces to suppress the rebels was that the U. S. had strategically decided Hussein's rule was better than the risk of a mujahideen-or Iranian Revolution-style takeover.

The format for the first and second televised U. K.

In May 2011, President Obama announced in a televised speech to the nation that al-Qaeda leader and culprit behind many deadly acts of terrorism ( including the September 11 attacks ) Osama bin Laden was killed by U. S. forces at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

This photo was on display as Ms. Marciniak testified at a televised hearing in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. House of Representatives, on July 8, 2003.

* Vice President Clark's presidential swearing-in aboard EarthForce Two is an intentional homage to U. S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's own ceremony aboard a plane, televised to the nation, immediately after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963.

U. S. News and World Report listed him ( along with then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton ) as one of “ Ten Rising Stars of American Politics ”, and a 60 Minutes profile introduced him to a televised national audience.