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  • Great Speeches: Patrick Kennedy

    03/13/2010 3:58:27 PM PST · by Bon mots · 15 replies · 584+ views
    Liveleak ^ | March 13, 2010 | me
    What an emotional speaker. When you watch this video of this impassioned speech, you can only wonder who on earth voted for this hysterical cretin. Patrick Kennedy Speech If you've not seen this guy speak, watch this. It's almost as funny as a speech by Caroline Kennedy. Another brilliant Kennedy speech by Caroline ummm, you know, ummm Kennedy:Caroline ummm, you know, Kennedy
  • Blast from the Past: Spiro Agnew speech in 1969 against media bias

    09/27/2008 8:14:13 AM PDT · by fleagle · 6 replies · 358+ views
    SMU archives ^ | November 13, 2008 | Spiro Agnew
    Vice President Spiro Agnew "On the National Media" Speech Delivered at Des Moines, Iowa November 13, 1969 Tonight I want to discuss the importance of the television-news medium to the American people. No nation depends more on the intelligent judgment of its citizens. No medium has a more profound influence over public opinion. Nowhere in our system are there fewer checks on vast power. So, nowhere should there be more conscientious responsibility exercised than by the news media. The question is: Are we demanding enough of our television news presentations? And, are the men of this medium demanding enough of...
  • Upon Saint Crispin's Day: My Two Cents on Honoring What's Honrorable

    10/26/2007 8:37:14 AM PDT · by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net · 7 replies · 235+ views
    Spare Change | October 25, 2007 | David J. Aland
    1,721 years ago, two Christian brothers in pagan Gaul were martyred. 300 years later, they were named Saints of the Catholic Church, celebrated on the 25th of October. On the Feast of Crispin and Crispinian, some of the most climactic battles in Western history have been fought: Balaklava, Leyte Gulf, Cap Finisterre. The Cuban Missile Crisis began on Crispin’s Day, as did the First Marxist Revolution, and the United States invaded Grenada. Pablo Picasso and Minnie Pearl were born on Crispin’s Day; Geoffrey Chaucer and Bat Masterson passed away. But no one remembers Saint Crispin’s Day the way Will Shakespeare...
  • A Glorious Disaster (Ronald Reagan's Famous "A Time For Choosing" Speech, VIDEO)

    09/03/2007 4:36:17 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 3 replies · 438+ views
    NEMOV ^ | September 1, 2007 | NeMov
    Before reading A Glorious Disaster my knowledge of the 1964 presidential election was shallow. I knew Lyndon Johnson defeated Goldwater in a landslide, but I never really knew anything about the nuts and bolts of the campaign. The 1964 election is an odd one. Johnson had just become president after the Kennedy assassination (killed by a Marxist, go figure). As senator Johnson served as a conservative southern Democrat. He voted against every Civil Rights bill while he was in Congress. Johnson only shifted his opinion later because of the popularity of the measure. Johnson's ambitions were much stronger than any...
  • The Other Thing Reagan Said in Berlin

    06/13/2007 7:45:57 AM PDT · by Alex Murphy · 4 replies · 259+ views
    Town Hall.com ^ | June 13, 2007 | Terence Jeffrey
    Western leaders searching for a long-term strategy to defend our civilization from fundamentalist Islam ought to reread the speech President Reagan delivered at the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this month. It was neither democracy nor capitalism Reagan foresaw bringing down the wall. It was Christianity. Reagan's demand that Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the wall was the defining sound-bite of that speech, but it was another passage that defined the core meaning of the Cold War. Pondering what sustained Berliners, surrounded as they were by the Soviet menace, Reagan concluded: "Perhaps this gets to the root of the...
  • PBS thinks Kerry's 1971 HFRC testimony is one of America's "Great Speeches"

    08/22/2004 8:24:56 PM PDT · by GaretGarrett · 28 replies · 1,242+ views
    http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/ ^ | 4/22/1971 | John Kerry
    Decorated veteran John Kerry, testifying before the House Foreign Relations Committee, questions the War in Vietnam, Washington, D.C., April 22, 1971. .............................. Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator Javits, Senator Symington and Senator Pell. I would like to say for the record, and also for the men sitting behind me who are also wearing the uniforms and their medals, that my sitting here is really symbolic. I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of a group of 1,000, which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this...
  • Happy Flag Day! June 14, 2003

    06/14/2003 10:14:03 AM PDT · by cgk · 57 replies · 1,359+ views
    6-14-03
    The History Of Flag Day The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'. On...
  • Jeane Kirkpatrick Speech to 1984 RNC (Coined "Blame America First" and "San Francisco Democrats")

    04/06/2003 8:57:36 AM PDT · by Stultis · 35 replies · 12,430+ views
    <p>Thank you very much for that warm welcome.</p> <p>Thank you for inviting me.</p> <p>This is the first Republican Convention I have ever attended.</p> <p>I am grateful that you should invite me, a lifelong Democrat. On the other hand, I realize that you are inviting many lifelong Democrats to join this common cause.</p>