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RECENT ADDITIONS

Frank Church
Address to the 1960 DNC [w/ Audio and Video Excerpts]

Ronald Reagan
Address to the Diet of Japan [Lighting Adjusted and Remastered Stereo Audio Added]

Barack Obama
Penultimate Q&A With White House Interns [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Second Address to the Parliament of Ireland [w/ English Text and Video]

Abraham Lincoln
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation [PDF]

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
IAEA Address on the Use of Nuclear Technology to Mitigate Worldwide Plastic Pollution [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Vladimir Putin
Press Conference Following State Visit to Kyrgyzstan and the Collective Security Treaty Organization Summit [w/ English Transcript and Russian-English Video]

Sean Duffy
Press Conference with FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford Announcing Major Aviation Safety Actions [Entire Document Authenticated]

Zohran Mamdani
New York City Mayoral Race Victory Address [AudioXE Added]

John C. Williams
Remarks at the Central Bank of Chile Centennial Conference [w/ Video]

AMB. Mike Waltz
UN Security Council Pre-Vote Address on Gaza Draft Resolution S/2025/748 [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Authenticated Text and Audio

"I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust."

"Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."

"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
 

MEMORIAL SPEECHES
 
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 Reagan 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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