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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

FIRST ADDRESS TO THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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Senate Privilege Speech Against Senator Santiago [w/ Tagalog to English Translation, Audio, Video]

Chip Roy
House Floor Speech on the Texas Border Crisis [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Michael D. Higgins
Address to the Full UK Parliament  [w/ Video]

CJCS Gen. Mark Milley
Address at the Virtual Opening Ceremony for the National Army Museum [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

Tom Brady
Address at a White House Event Honoring the 2021 Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers [w/ Authenticated Text, AudioXE, Video]

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Address to NATO on a New Strategic Concept [w/ Authenticated Text and AudioXE]

Vivek Murthy
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James Mattis
Operation Iraqi Freedom Eve of Battle Letter to Troops

Teodoro Locsin
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Address at the Public Wake for President Benigno S. Aquino III [w/ Authenticated Text and Video]

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Mattie Ross: "Tom Chaney stole [my father's] horse while it was in your care. You are responsible."

Colonel Stonehill: "I believe you'll find I'm not liable for such claims."

Mattie Ross: "You were the custodian. If you were a bank and were robbed you could not simply tell the depositors to go hang."

Colonel Stonehill: "I do not entertain hypotheticals -- the world as it is is vexing enough. Secondly, your valuation of the horse is high by about two hundred -- How old are you?"

Mattie Ross: "If anything, my price is low. Judy is a fine racing mare. I've seen her jump an eight-rail fence with a heavy rider. I'm fourteen."
 

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 Bernice King: For Yolanda King
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
8/26/02 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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