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Life Limitates Farce
2023-11-24This eloquent speech was given on the floor of the House of Representatives by Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri, the House Democratic leade...
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Farewell to Yankee Fans
2023-11-24As a first baseman for the New York Yankees baseball team, Lou Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games from 1925 to 1939, setting a major league reco...
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Concedes the 2000 Election
2023-11-24On Tuesday, November 7, 2000, a presidential election was held featuring Democratic candidate, Vice President Al Gore, versus Republican candidate, Ge...
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Liberty or Death
2023-11-24Following the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773, in which American Colonists dumped 342 containers of tea into the Boston harbor, the British Parliament...
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What is an American?
2023-11-24This remarkable speech was delivered during an "I am an American" day meeting in New York's Central Park by Harold Ickes, President Fran...
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We Shall Overcome
2023-11-24In this very eloquent speech to the full Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson used the phrase "we shall overcome," borrowed from African-Am...
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Decides Not to Seek Re-election
2023-11-24President Johnson speaking from the Oval Office.On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the world with his surprise announcement that h...
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On Surrender to US Army
2023-11-24Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1840?-1904) was known to his people as "Thunder Traveling to the Loftier Mountain Heights." He led his people...
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Inaugural Address
2023-11-24On a frigid Winter's day, January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office as the 35th President of the United States. At age 43,...
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"We choose to go to the Moon"
2023-11-24In this 1962 speech given at Rice University in Houston, Texas, President John F. Kennedy reaffirmed America's commitment to landing a man on the ...