Labor and the Nation
speakingforleaders John L. Lewis · September 3, 1937 Occasion. Labor Day weekend radio address from Washington. Listeners already know Roosevelt's "a plague on both your houses" during the Little Steel strike…
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Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day
Ronald Reagan · June 6, 1984 Occasion. Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, June 6, 1984 — the 40th anniversary, on the cliffs the Rangers climbed. Sixty-two surviving U.S. Rangers are seated…
Religious Belief and Public Morality
Mario Cuomo · September 13, 1984 Occasion. Notre Dame Department of Theology, September 13, 1984. Cuomo is the Democratic, Catholic governor of New York, answering a summer of attacks by…
Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address
Geraldine Ferraro · July 19, 1984 Occasion. Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 19, 1984. She is the first woman nominated for vice president by a major U.S. party. Mondale…
Senate Address on Free Speech in War Time
Robert La Follette · October 6, 1917 Occasion. U.S. Senate floor, October 6, 1917, six months after the declaration of war. He is one of six senators who voted no.…
Speech Accepting the Democratic Presidential Nomination
Adlai Stevenson · July 26, 1952 Occasion. Democratic National Convention, Chicago, July 26, 1952. Stevenson, governor of Illinois, had not campaigned; the convention drafted him the day before after Truman…
The Struggle for Human Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt · September 28, 1948 Occasion. The Sorbonne, Paris, September 28, 1948. She chairs the UN Human Rights Commission; the draft Universal Declaration is before the General Assembly. The…
The Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall · June 5, 1947 Occasion. Harvard Yard, June 5, 1947. Marshall is Secretary of State, receiving an honorary degree two years after the war; the crowd did…
Faith, Truth, and Tolerance in America
Edward M. Kennedy · October 3, 1983 Occasion. Liberty Baptist College, Lynchburg, October 3, 1983. Kennedy, a liberal Catholic Democrat, is speaking on Jerry Falwell's campus to Falwell's students. The…
1992 Republican Convention Address
Mary Fisher · August 19, 1992 Occasion. Republican National Convention, Houston, August 19, 1992. She is addressing a party that has treated AIDS largely as a gay and drug issue.…