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Joe Biden

First Oval Office Address as U.S. President -- On the Bipartisan Budget Agreement [w/ AudioXE, and Video]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

On a 10-Point Peace Formula [w/ Video]

Address to the People of Japan at the G7 Hiroshima Summit [w/ Video]

Address in English to the Arab League Summit [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Ferdinand Marcos Jr

Address to a CSIS ASEAN Leadership Forum [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, and Video]

Antony Blinken

Remarks at U.S. State Department Event Honoring Workforce Serving 222 Released Nicaraguan Political Prisoners [w/ AudioXE and Frame Interpolated Video]

Donald Trump

Remarks During a NATO Breakfast [Audio of Previously Unavailable End of Meeting Comments Added]

Kevin McCarthy

Address to the Knesset of Israel [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Nobusuke Kishi

Address to the Senate of the United States of America [w/ English Language Transcript]

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Memorial Day Address at Gettysburg [w/ Authenticated Text, Audio, and Video Excerpt]

NATO Finland Accession

Speeches by Jens Stoltenberg and Sauli Niinistö [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Governor Bill Lee

Video Address to the People of Tennessee Following the Tragic Covenant School Shootings [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

Text, Audio, Video of Address

"When the modern Western states were created, the principle was proclaimed that governments are meant to serve man and man lives to be free and to pursue happiness."

"In the process, however, one psychological detail has been overlooked: the constant desire to have still more things and a still better life and the struggle to attain them imprint many Western faces with worry and even depression, though it is customary to conceal such feelings. Active and tense competition fills all human thoughts without opening a way to free spiritual development.
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"A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses. And it will be simply impossible to stand through the trials of this threatening century with only the support of a legalistic structure."

 

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 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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