bump.
Probably a big help to his evil promulgation of fascism in America.
President Coolidge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw
This is a good one to.
Youtube has a good amount of videos.
The audio quality is quite good, the content sounded like typical lefty BS, so I didn’t listen long.
What does astonish me is that Wilson was born in 1856. Time flies so fast and life is so fleeting.
I read the blurb below the You Tube video, and I’m wondering where this guy came up with the audio. I’m wondering if it’s real. I don’t mean to be such a skeptice, but this type of thing can easily be created with scratchy record sound effects and a well-spoken imitator of earlier American speech and phrasing.
I found it odd that this recording, supposedly from 1912, had him saying, “...added to this element are a great many men.. and women... of noble character...” I didn’t know the “he or she” thing started until much later in the 20th Century. In the old days, all of mankind were generally referred to as “he.” Now, we see all the PC crap where everything has to acknowledge the female gender, so everyone is too darned busy saying junk like, “If he or she would like to join us...” Stupid, in my opinion (and I’m a woman).
I don’t know about the audio; I’m just sayin’...
There is a similar film with synchronized audio of Theodore Roosevelt speaking during that same campaign. TR had a high-pitched voice with a schoolmarmish, almost effeminate, method of speaking. I was surprised.
Not surprised at the quality of his voice or the cadence of it. He was a Princeton wussie who saw himself as part of the so-called intelligencia that knows so much more and so much better than everybody else which is a total farce.
He’s the asshat that ushered in the Federal Reserve, sorry I can’t put the politics aside.
Assuming that it is a real recording of Wilson, the accent could be explained by his working as a professor and the need to be heard. Frankly, people were better public speakers then. They also spoke for longer.
In other words, his vocal rhythm and non-geographical accent sounded like one of the monied, academic/intellectual elites of the day.
Wilson was and is still known as an accomplished and eloquent orator.....but I doubt if I could sit sit through one of his speeches because of a certain dry robotic coldness accompanying a noticeable stifling of any passion.
The dramatics, histrionics, emotions and even some outright nasties in the speeches of many politicians in this day and age were not practiced by presidents in Wilson's era. They all sounded so veddy, veddy correct....but rather stilted to one degree or another......something we're not used to today.
Leni
Second Wilson in both his legal and Academic/Lecturer professions studied and practiced rhetoric. Rhetoric as a discipline in those days of such speakers as William Jennings Bryant, practiced clear enunciation and an educated accent that modeled a clipped Northeastern in style and intonation.
If you want to hear a much better speech, listen to Warren G. Harding’s “normalcy” speech which is also online. It contains much good sense and Harding knew how to how to deliver a speech.
It should be noted that this recording was done without the assistance of any electronic devices whatsoever. In that respect, it is impressive, but the sound quality is quite typical of any of the thousands of recordings that were done at the time. The first commercially produced electronic recordings appeared in 1925.
WOW. From 1912 to 2012. We’ve come a long way..............down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NytLXFb2Am0&feature=related
“3. Wilson’s accent. Although Woodrow Wilson spent his boyhood in the South (mostly Georgia and South Carolina) and never left the South until he attended Princeton, I can detect no trace of an accent in his voice. I do remember that in “How the States Got Their Shapes” it was contended that there was no southern accent until AFTER the Civil War. That could explain Wilson’s lack of such an accent since he would have been influenced by the earlier way of talking in the South (he was born in 1856).”
Sounds vaguely English, Scottish, Irish. Scotch-Irish might’ve had a blending of accents, since a lot of them were on the border of England/Scotland before they were exiled/moved to Ireland. I heard a lot of them moved to the South. Maybe initially they kind of kept or copied their parents’ accents, then over time it morphed into what we think of as a Southern Accent?
Pure guessing on my part, but it’s the first thing I thought of, I know some Scotch-Irish history. If I heard someone like that today, I’d assume he was someone from the UK, who’d been here awhile. Either that or he had a fake British accent like Madonna.
Now listen to Calvin Coolidge...
Calvin Coolidge’s Insane Last Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwMuCOi0QY&NR=1
Good quality .... Real good. Possible it was cleaned up by archival restoration sorts ?
Even from the political message itself the so called talking points seem to be lacking as so many of todays shit’n shineola polidiots seem to spew in every rapid fire soundbite.
Cool to hear .... Thanks.