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• n  delivering an address to a public audience
  people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking

• In speechmaking, if something works, you use it and use it and use it again.
• The speechmaking in the tapestry-hung Hall of Columns of the Royal Palace in Madrid that opened the Middle East peace conference was, like a wedding or a baptism, a solemn rite .
• Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like an amiable riverboat gambler living it up, this saturnine little man seemed to shrink from the speechmaking and the public .

• public speaking
• speaking
• oral presentation

News & Articles

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• Our Opinion: The elephants in the room
  Preparing himself and the country for coming budget battles with congressional Republicans, President Obama has embarked on a speechmaking tour of the nation.
  July 30, 2013 - Wichita Falls Times Record News

Quotes

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• Michael Gerson in Douglas Daily Dispatch
  Making use of these kinds of nonsectarian religious references is, itself, the great tradition of American political speechmaking,said Gerson, who is now a Washington Post opinion columnist. "As a speechwriter, when I hear this kind of...
• John McCain in Boston Globe
  Ted Kennedy had this unique way of doing hand-to-hand combat on the floor of the Senate,McCain said on CNN. "And as soon as we stopped our speechmaking, he'd come over and put his arm around you and make everybody appreciate that we had...
• Howard Fineman in U.S. News & World Report
  Howard Fineman, in his column for Newsweek, writes, "Barack Obama believes in his voice and his life story. Autobiographical speeches powered his campaign. ...... Now comes the ultimate test of autobiographical speechmaking. Obama this week speaks...