Senator Dirksen, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Vice President, President Johnson, Vice President Humphrey, my fellow Americans–and my fellow citizens of the world community:
I ask you to share with me today the majesty of this moment. In the orderly transfer of power, we celebrate the unity that keeps us free.
Each moment in history is [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Richard Nixon: First Inaugural Address – January 20, 1969
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Ronald Wilson Reagan: Address on the Space Shuttle “Challenger” (January 28, 1986)
Posted in Ronald Reagan Speeches, Twentieth Century Speeches, tagged Challenger, History, January 28 1986, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Speeches, tragedy, writing on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We [...]
Salvador Allende: Last Words to the Nation
Posted in Salvador Allende, Twentieth Century Speeches, tagged 11 September 1973, Chile, History, Last Words to the Nation, Politics, Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in the midst on an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d’etat against the democratically-elected government. Barricaded inside La Moneda, the presidential palace, President Allende gave his life defending Chilean democracy.
My friends,
Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air [...]
