In his opening words in his initial address, Khrushchev denigrated Stalin by asking delegates to rise in honor of the communist leaders who had died since the last congress, whom he named, equating Stalin with Klement Gottwald and the little-known Kyuichi Tokuda.
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:: FallGleaming : I've restored the initial address you made to me, and presumably thought better of subsequently, since you deleted it and added the one immediatlely above a couple hours later, even though you knew from my quick wp : indent cleanup that I'd already seen it.
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President Bush's budget speech, with its heavy concentration on his education proposals and even more on his tax cut plan, reflected both his campaign and his record as governor of Texas, but was much more narrowly focused than the initial addresses most recent presidents have made to Congress after they took office.
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The US Embassy in Oslo was in touch with me the evening of Kennedy's initial address to the nation, and for the next two weeks I was sent around Arctic Circle towns, some quite close to the Russian border, armed with piles of public briefing material to make the American case to civic organizations.