American Rhetoric: Important 21st Century Speeches in the United States

Rhetorical Literacy: 49 Important Speeches in 21st Century America

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	Kathleen Babineaux Blanco	Address to the LA Legislature on Hurricane Katrina	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Michael Rubens Bloomberg	Governors Island Address on Religious Tolerance	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Janice Kay Brewer	Address on Signing Senate Bill 1070	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Richard Halleck Brodhead	"On the Practice and Ethics of Trying Cases in the Media"	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Robert C. Byrd	"The Arrogance of Power"	mp3	PDF FLASH
	George Walker Bush	9/11 Address to the Nation	mp3	PDF FLASH
	George Walker Bush	9/11 Address to a Joint Session of Congress	mp3	PDF FLASH
	George Walker Bush	2002 State of the Union Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
	George Walker Bush	Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Hillary Rodham Clinton	2008 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Address to the UN Commission on the Status of Women	mp3	PDF FLASH
	William Jefferson Clinton	Farewell Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
	William Jefferson Clinton	Eulogy for Robert Byrd	mp3	PDF FLASH
	William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr	50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Remarks	mp3-Excerpt	PDF FLASH
	Thomas Dale DeLay	Farewell Address to the U.S. House of Representatives	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Robert Michael Gates	Address to the World Forum on the Future of Democracy	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Julius Genachowski	Brookings Speech on Broadband & the Internet	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni	"We Are Virginia Tech"	mp3
	Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani	9/11 Speech to the United Nations General Assembly	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr.	Concession Speech	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr.	Nobel Lecture	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Dan Hicks & Rowdy Gaines	Call of Jason Lezak's 2008 Olympic Freestyle Relay Leg	mp3
	Eric Himpton Holder	Speech Marking African-American History Month	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Paul David Hewson (aka "Bono")	Keynote Address at the 54th National Prayer Breakfast	mp3	PDF
	James Mountain Inhofe	Senate Speech on Global Warming and the Media	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Steven Paul Jobs	Commencement Address at Stanford University	mp3
	Marion Lois Jones-Thompson	On Illegal Steroid Use and False Statements	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Mitch Landrieu	On Confederate Monuments Removal in New Orleans		PDF
	Barbara Jean Lee	Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Jessica Dawn Lynch	"The Truth is Always More Heroic than the Hype"	mp3	PDF
	David McCullough, Jr.	Wellesley College Commencement Speech		PDF FLASH
	James Edward "Jim" McGreevey	Press Conference Announcing Resignation	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Zell Bryan Miller	2004 Republican National Convention Keynote Address	mp3	PDF
	Michael Nutter	Mount Carmel Baptist Church Address	mp3	PDF
	Barack Hussein Obama	2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address	mp3	PDF
	Barack Hussein Obama	Commencement Address at Knox College	mp3
	Barack Hussein Obama	"A More Perfect Union"	mp3
	Barack Hussein Obama	Nobel Lecture		PDF FLASH
	John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil	Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Address	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Joseph Vincent "Jay" Paterno, Jr.	Eulogy Address at the Joe Paterno Memorial Service	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Gen. David Howell Petraeus	Address to the 45th Munich Security Conference	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Gen. Colin Lewis Powell	Address to the U.N. Security Council on WMD in Iraq	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Condoleezza Rice	Wriston Lecture at the Manhattan Institute	mp3	PDF
	Condoleezza Rice	Opening Statement Before the 9/11 Commission	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Willard Mitt Romney	"Faith in America"	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Ricardo S. Sanchez	Remarks to Military Reporters and Editors Forum	mp3	PDF
	Ryne Dee Sandberg	Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Address		PDF
	Attallah Shabazz	Remarks at the Memorial Service for Coretta Scott King	mp3	PDF FLASH
	Shirley Sherrod	NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Banquet Speech		PDF FLASH

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