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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

ADDRESS TO UN 4TH WORLD CONFERENCE IN BEIJING

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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]

WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS THE U.S. CONGRESS

NATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES

Chief Logan

Pope Francis

Chief Powhatan

Ashraf Ghani

Chief Pushmataha

Julia Gillard

Nelson Mandela

Chief Red Eagle

Soong May-Ling

Chief Red Jacket

Narendra Modi

Chief Tecumseh

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peter MacDonald

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Wanbli Ohitika

Margaret Thatcher

SPEECH OF THE WEEK

BARBARA JORDAN: ON IMPEACHING A U.S. PRESIDENT

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"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."

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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