For seasoned watchers of President Reagan, his mid-week speech in Chicago was a familiar scene gone slightly, and tellingly, awry.
This is resonant of a UK study which found no evidence of difference on impairment level measures for five versus two hours per week of speech and language therapy for 12 weeks (and lower user acceptability for the higher intensity).
And unlike his U.N. address earlier in the week, this speech could be focused entirely on Turkey's complicated internal politics.
"Another week, another speech about the evils of capitalism," Nick Clegg joked.
National Apple Week, National Art Week, American Education Week, National Father and Son Week, Official Speech Week, National Fur Week (slogan Let's make it fly!), Appreciation Week, Children's Book Week, National Gift Wee, National Prosperity Week, Church Advertising Week, Prune Week, Canned Goods Week, Wool Week, (none for the little boy that cries in the Park Lane.
But on any time horizon further away than a few weeks, the speech will prove to be a terrible mistake, quite possibly the fatal error of his premiership.
On average, Chávez's voice is present in their lives for 40 hours a week in speeches, proclamations and media events, including Aló Presidente.
He described the previous week's speeches to the General Assembly, which seemed to set a different tone in Iran's diplomacy, as "a theater of lies and deception".
The proposed US defense budget for fiscal year 2017 has been released into the wild, capping a week of speeches, talks, and announcements by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
In fact, President Obama's recent trip to Kabul has been followed by a week of speeches by Karzai lashing out at the West for trying to control his government, and accusing them of meddling with last year's national elections.
"The ensuing 13 weeks of speech-making", said the "Times" "will produce enough words to fill 225 million pages - a conservative estimate by Assembly planning experts".
