Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis invited her to speak at the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, but because of pregnancy, Stanton chose instead to lend her name to the list of sponsors and send a speech to be read in her stead.
However Carr sent an acceptance speech which was read out asking for his award to be dedicated to his late agent, the colourful Addison Cresswell who died in December.
A reader sent me a speech that Amartya Sen gave in which he too compared India and China.
A couple of months ago, his daughter sent him a speech she'd given to her class.
The senator's office instead sent along a speech he'd delivered last summer at the American Enterprise Institute, a broad attack on what he sees as efforts by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress, to infringe on First Amendment rights of free speech in the political world, a cause he's long championed.
Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, sent a similar message in a speech on Sept. 29.
Before speaking at TED, Sandberg sent a draft of her speech to Gloria Steinem, who is a friend.
Valenti had sent a copy of his speech to L.B.J. before he delivered it; neither man anticipated the public response.
And George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, who had been sent a copy of the speech but did not read it before it was delivered, reluctantly issued a statement two years ago this week saying that "These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president".
The network's poor showing is ironic given MSNBC's partisan shift and embrace of Obama's candidacy, notoriously encapsulated by Chris Matthews' pronouncement that a Barack Obama speech sent a thrill up his leg.
