The speech was, among other things, and in spite of the gracious gesture at its opening, a devastating repudiation of ex-President Bush, who seemed to be shrinking physically as well as historically whenever the camera found him, until, by the end, his unimportance was almost bewildering.
Trump re-litigated the issue at length during the speech, citing, among other news reports, a 2004 Esquire magazine interview as proof that he warned against the U.S. invasion of Iraq ― even though that interview took place more than a year after the invasion had already happened.
Numerous members of the Giants credited the speech with being among the more inspirational that they've heard.
While the speech is not among his most remembered, scholars say it gave an important lift to the antiwar movement.
For Mr. Clinton, who has become one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, the speech will be among the most high-profile roles yet that he has assumed for Mr. Obama.
Earlier this month, in a rare press conference, Louis Farrakhan addressed the matter of a speech delivered late last November at Kean College, in New Jersey, by Khalid Abdul Muhammad, one of his top aides and Conrad Muhammad's predecessor at Mosque No. 7. In the speech, Khalid Muhammad declared, among other things, that Jews were the "bloodsuckers of the black nation".
The speech raised concerns among human rights activists that Indonesia was heading toward its own Philippines-style war on drugs.
The reaction to Trump's speech among the world leaders in the room was "muted at best" and "stone faced," according to a press pool report from The New York Times' Peter Baker.
Joe Morgan, one of 40 Hall of Famers returning for the ceremony and a member of the committee to keep the speeches short, among other things, came to the microphone.
The irony is that those who praised Obama's speech among the base of the Democratic Party -- such as the evening cable TV show host who once called Bill Clinton a "Republican president" -- missed how Clintonian it was.
