Rhetorical Literacy: 49 Important Speeches in 21st Century America

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Kathleen Blanco

Address to the LA Legislature on Hurricane Katrina

 mp3 PDF
Michael Bloomberg Governors Island Address on Religious Tolerance mp3 PDF
Bono Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast mp3 PDF
Janice Kay Brewer Address on Signing Senate Bill 1070 mp3 PDF
Richard Brodhead

"On Trying Cases in the Media"

 mp3 PDF
Robert C. Byrd "The Arrogance of Power" mp3 PDF
George Walker Bush 9/11 Address to the Nation mp3 PDF
George Walker Bush 9/11 Address to a Joint Session of Congress mp3 PDF
George Walker Bush 2002 State of the Union Address mp3 PDF
George Walker Bush Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution mp3 PDF
Hillary Rodham Clinton 2008 Democratic National Convention Address mp3 PDF
Hillary Rodham Clinton To the UN Commission on the Status of Women mp3 PDF
William Jefferson Clinton

Farewell Address

 mp3 PDF
William Jefferson Clinton Eulogy for Robert Byrd mp3 PDF
Susan Margaret Collins Senate Floor Speech on Brett Kavanaugh mp3 PDF
Bill Cosby, Jr

50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education

 mp3 PDF
Thomas Dale DeLay

Farewell Address to the U.S. House

 mp3 PDF
Robert Michael Gates

To the World Forum on the Future of Democracy

 mp3 PDF
Julius Genachowski Brookings Speech on Broadband & the Internet mp3 PDF

Nikki Giovanni

"We Are Virginia Tech"

 mp3  
Rudy Giuliani 9/11 Speech to the UN General Assembly mp3 PDF
Al Gore, Jr.

Concession Speech

 mp3 PDF
Al Gore, Jr.

Nobel Lecture

 mp3 PDF
D. Hicks & R. Gaines Lezak's 2008 Olympic Freestyle Relay Leg mp3  


Eric Holder

Speech Marking African-American History Month

 mp3 PDF
Steve Jobs

Commencement Address at Stanford University

 mp3  
Marion Jones-Thompson On Illegal Steroid Use and False Statements mp3 PDF
Mitch Landrieu On Confederate Monuments Removal in NOLA mp3 PDF
Barbara Lee Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64 mp3 PDF
Jessica Lynch

"The Truth is Always More Heroic than the Hype"

 mp3 PDF
David McCullough, Jr. Wellesley High School Commencement Speech mp3 PDF
James McGreevey

Press Conference Announcing Resignation

 mp3 PDF
Zell Miller

2004 Republican National Convention Address

 mp3 PDF
Michael Nutter Mount Carmel Baptist Church Address mp3 PDF

Barack Obama

2004 Democratic National Convention Address

 mp3 PDF

Barack Obama

Commencement Address at Knox College

 mp3  

Barack Obama

"A More Perfect Union"

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Barack Obama Memorial Address at Tucson Arizona mp3 PDF
Buck O'Neil Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Address mp3 PDF
Jay Paterno, Jr. Eulogy for Joe Paterno mp3 PDF
David Petraeus Address to the 45th Munich Security Conference mp3 PDF
Colin Powell

To the U.N. Security Council on WMD in Iraq

 mp3 PDF
Condoleezza Rice Wriston Lecture at the Manhattan Institute mp3

PDF
Condoleezza Rice

Opening Statement Before the 9/11 Commission

 mp3 PDF

Mitt Romney

"Faith in America"

 mp3 PDF
Ricardo Sanchez

Remarks to Military Reporters and Editors Forum

 mp3 PDF

Ryne Sandberg

Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Address

 mp3 PDF
Attallah Shabazz

Remarks at the Memorial for Coretta Scott King

 mp3 PDF
Shirley Sherrod

NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Banquet Speech

 mp3 PDF
     

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