One of us - you or me -probably you - will invoke the emergency in a television speech.

He took quick advantage of it all last week, in effect declaring war on the governors in two prime-time television speeches.

He has met with the leaders of Congress in private, and delivered his television speech with his accustomed grace.

Mr. Reagan, who early in his Presidency was considered a master of the television speech, made no set-piece appeal to the nation.

"No decision has been made a priori," he said in the television speech.

Or had Pearl Lazenby been listening with eyes closed to the television speech, still going on in the background?

His heralded television speech three weeks ago called for "victory, victory over drugs," and promised $2.2 billion.

Republican supporters of President Bush said his television speech helped provide political cover with unhappy constituents.

But in the last year almost all of his television speeches have been reactive, defensive.

Then she came to Chicago for her mother's prime-time television speech on Tuesday.