Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, my copartners in Government, gentlemen and ladies:
The Constitution imposes upon me the obligation to “from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” While this has traditionally been interpreted as an annual affair, this tradition has been broken in extraordinary times.
These are [...]
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon, May 25, 1961
Posted in John Fitzgerald Kennedy Speeches, Twentieth Century Speeches, tagged History, JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, May 25 1961, Politics, Speeches, The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon, writing on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Adams: Death of George Washington (December 19, 1799)
Posted in Eighteenth Century, John Adams, tagged George Washington, George Washington death, John Adams, speech, writing on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:
The letter herewith transmitted will inform you that it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life our excellent fellow-citizen, George Washington, by the purity of his character and a long series of services to his country rendered illustrious through the world. It [...]
John Adams: Inaugural Address (March 04, 1797)
Posted in Eighteenth Century, John Adams, tagged 1797, Inaugural Addres, John Adams, speech, writibg on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and a total independence of its claims, men of reflection were less apprehensive of danger from the formidable power of fleets and armies they must determine to resist than from those contests and [...]
