Sentence examples for office speech from inspiring English sources

QUESTION FROM JON L.: President Obama looked uncomfortable in the Oval Office speech format.

To watch now: Rachel Maddow, delivering the Oval Office speech that wasn't.

Some advisers suggested a second Oval Office speech, which would be more intimate and controlled than an address to Congress.

So you sort of knew from the portents that President Obama's big Oval Office speech was not going to be a terrific game-changer.

Mr. Obama's Oval Office speech was everything the nation had hoped it would be — a message that he is indeed in control.

That's my surmise after reviewing recent polling and watching the carping that followed his Oval Office speech (which I thought was just fine, by the way).

From 1999 until June 2001 he served as communications director for California Gov. Gray Davis, responsible for the governor's press office, speeches, public appearances and the public affairs for 13 state agencies and 60 departments.

Among those who watched the president's oval-office speech last week, 43% described it as good or very good, 27% rated it as fair, and 30% (mostly Republicans) said it was poor.

Past presidents have used the luncheon to preview policy proposals they would lay out in their State of the Union address or, as it's described in the president's first year in office, their speech before a joint session of Congress.

Ralph Nader, a constant critic, once called Mrs. Knauer's office "a speech-making operation".

While traveling, Mr. Clinton frequently invokes his own time in office, peppering speeches with phrases like "in the 1990s" and "when I was president".