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MOVIE SPEECH: GETTYSBURG

COLONEL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN ADDRESSES SOLDIERS OF THE MAINE REGIMENT

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Javier Milei

Address to the America Business Forum [Completely Revised and Improved English Translation]

Marco Rubio

Pre G7 Press Conference [w/ Audio and Video]

Mike Burgess

Australia's Lowy Lecture on National Security [w/ Video]

John N. Kennedy

Senate Floor Speech Introducing Two Bills Withholding Members of Congress Pay [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Press Statement Announcing Resignation as Commander of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Sean Duffy

Press Conference with FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford Announcing Major Aviation Safety Actions [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Zohran Mamdani

New York City Mayoral Race Victory Address [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Barack Obama

First Prime Time Presidential Press Conference [Entire Audio and AI Upscaled and Enhanced Video Added

Pastor Bob Fu

Opening Statement to Congress on the Plight of Chen Guangcheng and Family [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Chen Guangcheng

"China and the Next Human Rights Revolution" [w/ English Partial Transcript and Off-Site Link to Entire Lecture]

JB Pritzker

First Press Conference on Federal Government Plans to Deploy National Guard to Chicago [w/ AudioXE of Extended Presser and Video]

WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS THE U.S. CONGRESS

NATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES

Pope Francis

Ashraf Ghani

Julia Gillard

Nelson Mandela

Soong May-Ling

Narendra Modi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peter MacDonald

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Wanbli Ohitika

Margaret Thatcher

SPEECH OF THE WEEK

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: GETTYSBURG aDDRESS

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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure."

"We are met on a great battlefield of that war."

"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live."

"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract."

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


STATE OF THE UNION SPEECHES
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