Question

The speech Barbara Jordan gave at Richard Nixon’s impeachment hearing “helped lead to Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal and won Jordan national acclaim for her rhetoric, intellect and integrity.” What was she asked to deliver two years later?

Answer 1

The answer is:

the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention.

Barbara Jordan's speech at Richard Nixon's impeachment hearing in 1974 gave her such popularity because of its rhetoric and honorableness that in 1976 she became the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, together with astronaut John Glenn.