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BARBARA BUSH: WELLESLEY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

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Mignon Clyburn

FCC Dissenting Statement on the Restoring Internet Freedom Order [w/ Audio and Video]

Ajit Pai

FCC Statement in Support of Restoring Internet Freedom Order [w/ Audio and Video]

Mark Zuckerberg

Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees on Facebook Data Protection and Privacy [w/ AudioXE and Video]

Jessica Rosenworcel

Dissenting FCC Statement in Support of Net Neutrality [w/ Audio and Video]

Young-Key Kim-Renaud

"I Remember" Poem Delivered at the Korean War Armistice 60th Anniversary Ceremony [w/ AudioXE and Video]

Rick Perry

2012 Campaign Suspension Speech [Authenticated Text Added and Audio Upgraded]

Jeff Sessions

Immigration Speech to California Peace Officers Association [w/ Video]
DACA Announcement [Authenticated Text Added w/ AudioXE and Video]

Nancy Pelosi

House Floor Speech on Health Care Vote [Transcript Updated and Video Restored]

Gen. Jeong Seung-jo

Address at the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice [w/ AudioXE and Video]

WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS THE U.S. CONGRESS

NATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES

Chief Logan

Pope Francis

Chief Powhatan

Nelson Mandela

Chief Pushmataha

Soong May-Ling

Chief Red Eagle

Narendra Modi

Chief Red Jacket

Benjamin Netanyahu

Chief Tecumseh

Margaret Thatcher

SPEECH OF THE WEEK

DOUGLAS MACARTHUR: FAREWELL TO CONGRESS

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"I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that 'old soldiers never die; they just fade away.'"


MEMORIAL SPEECHES
9th Earl Spencer: For Princess Diana	Al Gore: For Columbine High School
Al Sharpton: For Michael Jackson	Attallah Shabazz: For Coretta King
Barack Obama: For Tucson	Cher: For Sonny Bono
George Schultz: For Chris Stevens	Jay Paterno: For Father
Kevin Costner: For Whitney Houston	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

8/26/02

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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