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Jeff Sessions

Press Conference on Classified Information Leaks Threatening National Security [Frame Interpolated Video Added]

Opening Statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election [Frame Interpolated Video Added]

Press Conference Announcing Recusal from Trump Campaign Investigation [Minor Text Adjustments and Frame Interpolated Video Added

White House AG Swearing-In Ceremony Address [Video Added]

Nikki Haley

Address to the Heritage Foundation on U.S. Withdrawal from the UN Security Council [Frame Interpolated Video Added]

Doris Haddock

Address to the 1999 Reform Party Convention [w/ Offsite Video]

Nicola Sturgeon

First Minister Resignation Address [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Address to the Parliament of Scotland on Independence Referendum [w/ Video]

Lori LIghtfoot

Chicago Mayoral Concession Speech [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

MSP Ross Greer

Address to the Parliament of Scotland Marking One Year of Russia's War Against Ukraine [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Address to the People of Ukraine on One Year Anniversary of Russian Invasion [w/ Video]

Address to Both Houses of the UK Parliament [w/ Authenticated Text, Audio, Video]

Abe Shinzo

Address to a Joint Sitting of the Parliament of Australia [w/ Authenticated Text, Audio, and Video]

David Ben-Gurion

Reading of Israel's Declaration of Independence [Off Site YouTube Hebrew Audio w/ English Subtitles]
[Off Site English Transcript]

Jacinda Ardern

Resignation Address [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Authenticated Text and Audio

"Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States: "We, the people." It's a very eloquent beginning."

"But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'"

"Today I am an inquisitor. An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution."

 

MEMORIAL SPEECHESS

9th Earl Spencer: For Princess Diana Al Gore: For Columbine High School
Attallah Shabazz: For Coretta King Barack Obama: For Tucson
Bernice King: For Yolanda King Rev. Billy Graham for Richard Nixon
Cher: For Sonny Bono George Schultz: For Chris Stevens
Jay Paterno: For Father Jon Meacham: For George H.W. Bush
Kevin Costner: For Whitney Houston Luke Russert: For Father
Margaret Thatcher: For Ronald Reagann Nikki Giovanni: For Virginia Tech
Oprah Winfrey: For Rosa Parks Robert Kennedy: Martin Luther King
Ronald Reagan: For Challenger Seven Ted Kennedy: For Robert Kennedy
Ted Kennedy Jr: For Father William J. Clinton: For Oklahoma
 

 

A RHETORIC OF THE WAR IN IRAQ

 
1/29/02 President's State of the Union Address
2/02/02 Paul Wolfowitz's Address at the 38th Verkunde Conference
8/26/022 Vice President Cheney's Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention
1/28/03 President's State of the Union Address

2/05/03

Colin Powell's Address to the UN Security Council
3/17/03

President's Ultimatum to Saddam

3/19/03 President's Address to the Nation: Initial Ops in Iraq
3/19/03 Senator Robert Byrd: The Arrogance of Power
4/03/03 President's Address at Camp Lejeune
4/10/03 President and UK Prime Minister Addresses to the Peoples of Iraq
4/24/03 Ashleigh Banfield: Landon Lecture at Kansas State University
5/01/03 President Announces End of Combat Ops in Iraq
12/14/03 President Announces Capture of Saddam Hussein
1/20/04 President's 2004 State of the Union Address
4/8/04 Condoleezza Rice: 9/11 Commission Opening Statement
4/13/04 President's Prime Time News Conference on Iraq War
10/4/04 Donald Rumsfeld's Address to the Council on Foreign Relations
1/30/05 President's Address Following Democratic Election in Iraq
2/02/05 President's 2005 State of the Union Address
2/4/05 L. Paul Bremer: TD Waterhouse Conference Keynote Address
12/18/05 President's National Address in Oval Office
9/11/06 President's National Address on Five-Year Anniversary of 9/11
1/10/07 President's Address to the Nation on Troop Increase
7/12/07

President's Press Conference on Iraq War

9/10/07

General David Petraeus' Opening Statement to Congress on the Status in Iraq

9/13/07

President's Address to the Nation on Moving Forward in Iraq

10/12/07 General Ricardo Sanchez's Address to Military Reporters and Editors
2/27/09 President's Address at Camp Lejeune on Ending the War in Iraq
08/31/10 President's Oval Office Address Announcing End of Operation Iraqi Freedom
12/15/11 Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Marks the End of Operation New Dawn
 

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