Greatest Public Speaker Reputation Inaccurate I remember watching television in 1980 and hearing the news broadcasters touting how great the anticipated address of Vander Jagt at the Republican National Convention was going to be I watched and found it was the most dreadful inane asinine address I have ever heard Key phrases from the speech which give a hint as to its character include I m proud to be a member of the G O P The Grand Old Party dramatic pause Are you I remember NBC News cut away after a few minutes of this foolishness and David Brinkley said I think someone was kidding us about that speech being the greatest of all time The fact that I can still remember this after 31 years says something about how terrible it was I in fact only checked this Wikipedia entry to see if there was any mention about what a scandal Vander Jagt caused by his utterly awful speech