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  1. Eduard Manvelyan thank you for all this information friends please subscribe & like Eduard Manvelyan videos to support https://www.youtube.com/@EdMan1
  2. Aram Bakshian Jr. never went to college. Legend has it that he was standing in the registration line at Georgetown University in the fall of 1962 and, struck by the banality of the conversations around him, decided to forgo the university experience and make his way in the world without it. As it happened, he made his way just fine, becoming a significant figure of the American conservative movement for more than a half century as congressional staffer, presidential speechwriter, author, commentator, and Washington raconteur. Bakshian died September 14 at age 78 from pancreatic cancer. In June, he wrote to friends informing them of the diagnosis and adding, “There is no cure.” He said he planned to continue living and writing as usual for as long as he could. “But I want you to know,” he emphasized, “that I do so in a grateful and contented state of mind.https://www.theamericanconservative.com/remembering-aram-bakshian/
  3. https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/aram-jr-bakshian Aram Jr. Bakshian Fall 1975 Image Aram Jr. Bakshian Aram Bakshian, Jr. is the speechwriter to Presidents Nixon and Ford (promoted from Staff Assistant to Deputy Special Assistant in March 1974. In 1971, he served as the Special Assistant to Chairman of the Republican National Committee (Senator Bob Dole), and in 1970 as the Public Information Specialist with Federal Government. Mr. Bakshian served from 1966 to 1969 as a research aide and legislative assistant to Senator (then Representative) Bill Brock (R-TN) during which time he also headed staff operation of Brock's 22-member campus task force. He has also published over a hundred articles, essays and reviews in the United States and overseas in eight languages.
  4. Aram Bakshian Former White House Director of Speechwriting Aram Bakshian Jr. (March 11, 1944 – September 14, 2022) was an American political aide and speechwriter. He began his career working for Congressman Bill Brock (1966–70), then became a special assistant and speechwriter for Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Senator Bob Dole (1971). He joined the speechwriting staff of President Richard Nixon and, later, of President Ford (1972–75). He then became a senior consultant to Treasury Secretary William E. Simon (1976–77). Following his government service, Aram went on the lecture circuit as well as becoming a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University before being brought back for White House service. President Ronald Reagan brought Aram on during his first term initially in the Office of Public Liaison as a Special Assistant to the President (Arts, Humanities, Education/Academia, and International Affairs (1981), before he was hired as the Director of the White House Office of Speechwriting (1981–83). In 1987, President Reagan nominated him to a term on the National Council on the Humanities (1987–92). Following his years in government, Bakshian began his tenure as the editor-in-chief of the periodic journal the American Speaker (1992 until his retirement in 2009). In 2014, he began to serve as a contributing editor to The National Interest magazine. Aram died September 14, 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_Bakshian
  5. https://asbarez.com/anca-wr-to-bestow-lifetime-achievement-award-to-ken-khachigian/ ANCA-WR to Bestow Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Khachigian GLENDALE—The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region has announced that Ken Khachigian will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 ANCA-WR Annual Banquet for his decades of work as an American campaign strategist, political speechwriter and attorney. Ronald Reagan became the first sitting U.S. president to properly characterize the Armenian Genocide while Khachigian was his speechwriter. Khachigian is best remembered for his tenure as speechwriter in the Nixon and Reagan administrations. He has served as an advisor in nine presidential campaigns. In addition to his work on the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush-Quayle campaigns, he most recently served as a senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bob Dole in 1996; John McCain in 2000; and Fred Thompson in 2008. In 1970, after graduating from law school, he climbed the White House ranks during his tenure in the Nixon administration, going from staff assistant to Deputy Special Assistant to the President within six years. In 1974, after the Nixon administration had collapsed in the Watergate scandal, he joined President Nixon at his private California residence to help compose his memoirs and to conduct research for Nixon’s interview with David Frost. It was a landmark event that became the subject of the 2008 film ‘Frost/Nixon,’ in which Khachigian was portrayed by actor Gabriel Jarret. Following his work in the Nixon administration, Khachigian joined Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign. By 1981, he was named chief speechwriter and special consultant to the President. Within the first 100 days, Khachigian wrote Reagan’s inaugural address, his three main economic speeches, and the welcoming address to the hostages held during the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. Although he resigned after six months to return to the private sector, he would continue to write many of the major political and policy speeches throughout the President’s two terms, including the 1984 nomination acceptance speech, the 1985 remarks at the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, and the 1988 Republican National Convention farewell address. It was during the speech at Bergen-Belsen that Reagan famously declared, “… we can and must pledge: Never again,” and the address is widely regarded as the greatest throughout his career. Khachigian also penned the 1981 “Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust” Proclamation in which Reagan recognized and properly characterized the Armenian Genocide. Khachigian has been active in California elections since the early 1980s, and is known among politicos and pundits as “the lion of California GOP politics.” Prominent political commentator Bob Novak has written that Khachigian is “perhaps the state’s premier Republican strategist and wordsmith.” He is widely quoted in state and national publications, has appeared on prominent cable and network television programs and frequently lectures before businesses and associations on government affairs and politics. “With this award, we are recognizing Ken Khachigian for his invaluable contribution to Hai Tahd and American politics throughout the last 40 years,” said ANCA-WR Chairman Andrew Kzirian. “Among his many other achievements, Khachigian proved that the pen is mightier than the sword, succeeding in bringing the history of the Armenian people and most importantly the truth of the Armenian Genocide to the mainstream public consciousness.” During the 1982 and 1986 California gubernatorial campaigns, Khachigian was senior advisor and principal strategist for Governor George Deukmejian. He also served as campaign chairman, campaign manager and senior consultant to Dan Lungren for his two victories as Attorney General. Khachigian counseled Pete Wilson in his winning U.S. Senate and gubernatorial campaigns; in 1998, he guided the successful statewide retention election of California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin. Khachigian completed his undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Barbara in political science in 1966, and received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1969. He is currently a senior partner in the Orange County, California law office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, and a member of the Government Relations and Natural Resources departments. His practice includes a range of high-level environmental and government relations matters, particularly where legal, government and public issues intersect. Currently, he serves on the boards of the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance; the California Chamber of Commerce; the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation; the UCSB Foundation; and Campaigns & Elections Magazine. He and his wife, Meredith Khachigian, serve on the board of directors of the Armenian Eye Care Project, which has helped thousands of Armenians restore and maintain their vision through prevention and early intervention programs. They have two daughters: Merissa Khachigian, who serves as the Director of State Government Affairs at Oracle; and Kristy Khachigian, who is the Director of Executive Education at TechAmerica. The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region is the largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country, the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad range of issues.
  6. Kenneth Khachikian, also known as the “Lion of the California Republican Party,” is a political strategist who has served nine presidential campaigns as a chief consultant. He worked in President Ronald Reagan’s office and was a speechwriter for him. He was born in Visalia, California, to parents who survived the Armenian genocide and immigrated to the United States. As President Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, Khachikian wrote his first inaugural address and the speech welcoming the freed hostages of the Iran crisis. His character was also included in the 2008 film “Frost/Nixon.” https://westernarmeniatv.com/en/167703/children-of-western-armenia-kenneth-khachikian
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  8. Bravo !!! Չեխիայի հայ համայնքի կոչը լսվել է․ Պրահայում Աթաթուրքի արձան չի տեղադրվի
  9. MosJan

    Komitas

    The Venetian composer, conductor and violinist, Pietro Bianchini (1828-1905) has a very substantial body of compositions, much of it still unpublished. He is now primarily remembered for his association with the Mekhitarist Congregation in Venice, whose chants he transcribed and harmonised. The celebrated song «Բա՜մ. փորոտան» is his own setting of an excerpt from a poem by the Mekhitarist monk, botanist, historian and poet, and almost exact contemporary of Bianchini's, namely Fr. Łewond Ališan (1820-1901), Երգ ու գնացք զօրացն հայոց ընդ Վահանայ Մամիկոնենոյ ի Շաւարշական դաշտին վրէժք (1850). It would be no exaggeration to say that Bianchini’s setting has made Ališan’s poem famous, and was adopted by the people as a kind of informal national anthem. The song was recorded twice by the celebrated tenor (known as the “nightingale of Tarōn”, and a soloist at La Scala in Milan and at the Paris Opera), Armenag Shah-Mouradian (1878-1939). The first occasion was in Constantinople in 1914, when the singer was accompanied by none other than Archimandrite Komitas (1869-1935) at the piano, playing his own arrangement – Orfeon Record 11598 (matrix: X 2006). (The second recording was made in New York in May 1917, with orchestral accompaniment – Columbia E 3459: 28014-F (matrix 58297)). In both instances the song was mis-labelled as Բամբ որոտան (instead of the correct Բամ փորոտան), and in this earlier recording it is clearly discernible that Shah-Mouradian sings “Pamp vorodan” instead of “Pam porodan”! It is notable, moreover, that in neither case is Bianchini named as the composer (and the later recording merely mentions it as a “National song”). Though misleading, this does indicate the status this piece had come to enjoy by this time. I am grateful to the musicologist Haig Avakian for his kindness in supplying the photograph of the record and further invaluable information. Haig Utidjian
  10. MosJan

    Komitas

    Գանձ եմ գտել։ Հ. Ղևոնդ Ալիշանի խոսքերով գրված «Բամբ որոտան» երգի` Պիետրո Բիանկինիի մշակումն է, որը կատարում են Արմենակ Շահմուրադյանը (մեներգ) և Կոմիտաս վարդապետը (դաշնամուր)։ Ձայնագրությունը կատարվել է 1914 թվականին։
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