Presidential Speech Archive

The Scripps Library, through cooperation with various presidential libraries, has been collecting some of the more important presidential speeches of the past 60 years. These speeches are available in their entirety in full audio. When possible, we have also provided transcripts of the speeches. Recently we have expanded our collection to include the full text of some of the more important presidential speeches from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Select a president below to begin browsing the collection.

George W. Bush

First Inaugural Address (January 20,2001)

Remarks on Signing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (June 07,2001)

Second Inaugural (January 20,2005)

Bill Clinton

First Inaugural (January 20,1993)

Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (February 17,1993)

Remarks at the Signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Agreement (September 13,1993)

Address on Health Care Reform (September 22,1993)

Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ in Memphis (November 13,1993)

Remarks on the Signing of NAFTA (December 08,1993)

State of the Union Address (January 25,1994)

Remarks at the U.S. National Cemetery (June 06,1994)

Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate (June 12,1994)

State of the Union Address (January 24,1995)

Time for Healing Ceremony (April 23,1995)

Address on Bosnia (November 27,1995)

Address to the Employees of the Mackie Metal Plant (November 30,1995)

Second Inaugural (January 20,1997)

Response to the Lewinsky Allegations (January 26,1998)

State of the Union Address (January 27,1998)

Statement on His Testimony Before the Grand Jury (August 17,1998)

Statement on Kosovo (March 24,1999)

Address on the Kosovo Agreement (June 10,1999)

Farewell Address (January 18,2001)

George H. W. Bush

Inaugural Address (January 20,1989)

Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (February 09,1989)

Commencement Address at Texas A&M University (May 12,1989)

Address to the Nation on Panama (December 20,1989)

State of the Union Address (January 31,1990)

Remarks on the Signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (July 26,1990)

Address Before a Joint Session of Congress (September 11,1990)

Address to the United Nations (October 01,1990)

Address to the Nation on the Budget (October 02,1990)

Address to the Nation on the Invasion of Iraq (January 16,1991)

State of the Union Address (January 29,1991)

Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the End of the Gulf War (March 06,1991)

Republican National Convention (August 20,1992)

Address on Somalia (December 04,1992)

Remarks at Texas A&M University (December 15,1992)

Address at West Point (January 05,1993)

Ronald Reagan

"A Time for Choosing" (October 27,1964)

Republican National Convention (July 17,1980)

First Inaugural Address (January 20,1981)

Address to the British Parliament (June 08,1982)

"Evil Empire" Speech (March 08,1983)

40th Anniversary of D-Day (June 06,1984)

Republican National Convention (August 23,1984)

Second Inaugural Address (January 21,1985)

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (May 05,1985)

Speech on the Geneva Summit (November 21,1985)

Address on the Space Shuttle "Challenger" (January 28,1986)

Address to the Nation on Iran-Contra (March 04,1987)

Address from the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin Wall) (June 12,1987)

Address at Moscow State University (May 31,1988)

Remarks at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (November 11,1988)

Farewell Address (January 11,1989)

Jimmy Carter

Inaugural Address (January 20,1977)

Report to the American People on Energy (February 02,1977)

Remarks at President Carter's Press Conference (March 09,1977)

Address to the Nation on Energy (April 18,1977)

University of Notre Dame Commencement (May 22,1977)

Statement on the Panama Canal Treaty Signing (September 07,1977)

Address to the Nation on Energy (November 08,1977)

President Carter's Remarks on Joint Statement at Camp David Summit (September 17,1978)

Speech on Establishing Diplomatic Relations with China (December 15,1978)

"Crisis of Confidence" Speech (July 15,1979)

Speech on Afghanistan (January 04,1980)

State of the Union Address (January 23,1980)

Statement on the Iran Rescue Mission (April 25,1980)

Gerald Ford

Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office (August 09,1974)

Remarks on Clemency for Vietnam Era Draft Evaders (September 16,1974)

"Whip Inflation Now" Speech (October 08,1974)

Remarks at Tulane University (April 23,1975)

Address on Energy Policy (May 27,1975)

Remarks in Helsinki (August 01,1975)

Republican National Convention (August 19,1976)

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address (January 20,1969)

Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam (November 03,1969)

State of the Union Address (January 22,1970)

Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia (April 30,1970)

State of the Union Address (January 22,1971)

Radio Address About Second Annual Foreign Policy Report to the Congress (February 25,1971)

Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia (April 07,1971)

Remarks Announcing an Agreement on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (May 20,1971)

State of the Union Address (January 20,1972)

Address to the Nation on Plan for Peace in Vietnam (January 25,1972)

Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia (May 08,1972)

Remarks on Election Eve (November 06,1972)

Remarks on Being Reelected to the Presidency (November 07,1972)

Second Inaugural Address (January 20,1973)

Address to the Nation Announcing an Agreement on Ending the War in Vietnam (January 23,1973)

Address to the Nation About the Watergate Investigations (April 30,1973)

Address to the Nation About the Watergate Investigations (August 15,1973)

State of the Union Address (January 30,1974)

The President's News Conference (February 25,1974)

Address to the Nation on Presidential Tape Recordings (April 29,1974)

Address to the Nation Announcing Decision To Resign the Office of President (August 08,1974)

Remarks on Departure From the White House (August 09,1974)

Lyndon Johnson

Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights (May 30,1963)

Address to Joint Session of Congress (November 27,1963)

State of the Union (January 08,1964)

Remarks at the Ninety Sixth Charter Day Observances (February 21,1964)

Remarks at the University of Michigan (May 22,1964)

Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill (July 02,1964)

Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (August 04,1964)

Speech at the Jung Hotel, New Orleans (October 09,1964)

State of the Union (January 04,1965)

Inaugural Address (January 20,1965)

Speech Before Congress on Voting Rights (March 15,1965)

Statement on Sending Troops to the Dominican Republic (April 28,1965)

Report on the Situation in the Dominican Republic (May 02,1965)

Remarks at the Howard University Commencement (June 04,1965)

Remarks on the Signing of the Voting Rights Act (August 06,1965)

State of the Union (January 12,1966)

Speech on U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia (July 12,1966)

Address After Ordering Federal Troops to Detroit, Michigan (July 24,1967)

Speech to the Nation on Civil Disorders (July 27,1967)

Speech on Vietnam (September 29,1967)

Remarks on Decision not to Seek Re-Election (March 31,1968)

Remarks on Signing the Civil Rights Act (April 11,1968)

Remarks on Signing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (July 01,1968)

Remarks on the Cessation of Bombing of North Vietnam (October 30,1968)

John Kennedy

Acceptance of the Democratic Party Nomination (July 15,1960)

Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association (September 12,1960)

"City Upon a Hill" Speech (January 09,1961)

Inaugural Address (January 20,1961)

Establishment of the Peace Corps (March 01,1961)

"President and the Press" Speech (April 27,1961)

The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon (May 25,1961)

University of Washington's 100th Anniversary (November 16,1961)

Yale University Commencement (June 11,1962)

Address on the Space Effort (September 12,1962)

Address on the Buildup of Arms in Cuba (October 22,1962)

90th Anniversary of Vanderbilt University (May 18,1963)

American University Commencement (June 10,1963)

Address on Civil Rights (June 11,1963)

"Ich bin ein Berliner" Speech (June 26,1963)

Address on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (July 26,1963)

Address at the Mormon Tabernacle (September 26,1963)

Remarks at Amherst College (October 26,1963)

Dwight Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address (January 20,1953)

Chance for Peace (April 16,1953)

Atoms for Peace (December 08,1953)

Republican National Convention (August 23,1956)

Eisenhower Doctrine (January 05,1957)

Farewell Address (January 17,1961)

Harry Truman

First Speech to Congress (April 16,1945)

Annoucing the Surrender of Germany (May 08,1945)

Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima (August 06,1945)

Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference (August 09,1945)

Announcing the Surrender of Japan (September 01,1945)

Navy Day Address (October 27,1945)

Truman Doctrine (March 12,1947)

On the Veto of the Taft-Hartley Bill (June 20,1947)

Address before the NAACP (June 29,1947)

Democratic National Convention (July 15,1948)

Whistlestop Tour in Chariton, Iowa (September 18,1948)

Whistlestop Tour in Trenton, Missouri (September 18,1948)

Victory Celebration (November 03,1948)

Inaugural Address (January 20,1949)

Report to the American People on Korea (April 11,1951)

Columbia Scholastic Press Association (March 15,1952)

Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner (March 29,1952)

Rear Platform Remarks (October 22,1952)

Farewell Address (January 15,1953)

Franklin Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address (March 04,1933)

Fireside Chat 1: On the Banking Crisis (March 12,1933)

Fireside Chat 2: On Progress During the First Two Months (May 07,1933)

Fireside Chat 3: On the National Recovery Administration (July 24,1933)

Fireside Chat 4: On Economic Progress (October 22,1933)

Fireside Chat 5: On Addressing the Critics (June 28,1934)

Fireside Chat 6: On Government and Capitalism (September 30,1934)

Fireside Chat 7: On the Works Relief Program and Social Security Act (April 28,1935)

Democratic National Convention (June 27,1936)

Fireside Chat 8: On Farmers and Laborers (September 06,1936)

Speech at Madison Square Garden (October 31,1936)

Second Inaugural Address (January 20,1937)

Fireside Chat 9: On "Court-Packing" (March 09,1937)

Quarantine Speech (October 05,1937)

Fireside Chat 10: On New Legislation (October 12,1937)

Fireside Chat 11: On the Unemployment Census (November 14,1937)

Fireside Chat 12: On the Recession (April 14,1938)

Fireside Chat 13: On Purging the Democratic Party (June 24,1938)

Dedication of a Memorial to the Northwest Territory (July 08,1938)

Fireside Chat 14: On the European War (September 03,1939)

Fireside Chat 15: On National Defense (May 26,1940)

"Stab in the Back" Speech (June 10,1940)

Democratic National Convention (July 19,1940)

Fireside Chat 16: On the "Arsenal of Democracy" (December 29,1940)

State of the Union (Four Freedoms) (January 06,1941)

Third Inaugural Address (January 20,1941)

On Land Lease (March 15,1941)

Fireside Chat 17: On An Unlimited National Emergency (May 27,1941)

Fireside Chat 18: On The Greer Incident (September 11,1941)

Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War (December 08,1941)

Fireside Chat 19: On the War with Japan (December 09,1941)

Message to Congress Requesting War Declarations with Germany and Italy (December 11,1941)

Fireside Chat 20: On the Progress of the War (February 23,1942)

Fireside Chat 21: On Sacrifice (April 28,1942)

Fireside Chat 22: On Inflation and Food Prices (September 07,1942)

Fireside Chat 23: On the Home Front (October 12,1942)

State of the Union Address (January 07,1943)

Fireside Chat 24: On the Coal Crisis (May 02,1943)

Fireside Chat 25: On the Fall of Mussolini (July 28,1943)

Fireside Chat 26: On the Armistice in Italy (September 08,1943)

The Teheran Declaration (December 01,1943)

Fireside Chat 27: On the Tehran and Cairo Conferences (December 24,1943)

Fireside Chat 28: On the State of the Union (January 11,1944)

Fireside Chat 29: On the Fall of Rome (June 05,1944)

Fireside Chat 30: Opening Fifth War Loan Drive (June 12,1944)

Democratic National Convention (July 20,1944)

Fourth Inaugural Address (January 20,1945)

Joint Statement with Churchill and Stalin on the Yalta Conference (February 11,1945)

Address to Congress on Yalta (March 01,1945)

Herbert Hoover

Inaugural Address (March 04,1929)

Remarks Upon Proclaiming the Treaty for the Renunciation of War (Kellog-Briand Pact) (July 24,1929)

Calvin Coolidge

First Annual Message (December 06,1923)

Second Annual Message (December 03,1924)

Inaugural Address (March 04,1925)

Third Annual Message (December 08,1925)

Fourth Annual Message (December 07,1926)

Address at the Opening of Work on Mount Rushmore in Black Hills, SD (August 10,1927)

Fifth Annual Message (December 06,1927)

Sixth Annual Message (December 04,1928)

Warren Harding

Inaugural Address (March 04,1921)

First Annual Message (December 06,1921)

Second Annual Message (December 08,1922)

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address (March 04,1913)

Address at Gettysburg (July 04,1913)

Address at Congress Hall, Philadelphia (October 25,1913)

First Annual Message (December 02,1913)

Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Trusts and Monopolies (January 20,1914)

Message on Neutrality (August 20,1914)

"The Opinion of the World" Speech (October 20,1914)

Second Annual Message (December 08,1914)

Third Annual Message (December 07,1915)

Speech of Acceptance (September 02,1916)

Fourth Annual Message (December 05,1916)

"A World League for Peace" Speech (January 22,1917)

Second Inaugural Address (March 05,1917)

Proclamation 1364 (April 06,1917)

Fifth Annual Message (December 04,1917)

Sixth Annual Message (December 02,1918)

Seventh Annual Message (December 02,1919)

Eighth Annual Message (December 07,1920)

William Taft

Inaugural Address (March 04,1909)

Address on the Tariff Law of 1909 (November 17,1909)

First Annual Message (December 07,1909)

Second Annual Message (December 06,1910)

Special Message on Canadian Reciprocity (January 26,1911)

Third Annual Message (December 05,1911)

Fourth Annual Message (December 03,1912)

Theodore Roosevelt

First Annual Message (December 03,1901)

Second Annual Message (December 02,1902)

Third Annual Message (December 07,1903)

Fourth Annual Message (December 06,1904)

Inaugural Address (March 04,1905)

Fifth Annual Message (December 05,1905)

Sixth Annual Message (December 03,1906)

Seventh Annual Message (December 03,1907)

Eighth Annual Message (December 09,1908)

William McKinley

First Inaugural Address (March 04,1897)

First Annual Message (December 06,1897)

Second Annual Message (December 05,1898)

Third Annual Message (December 05,1899)

Fourth Annual Message (December 03,1900)

Second Inaugural Address (March 04,1901)

Grover Cleveland

First Inaugural Address (March 04,1885)

First Annual Message (December 08,1885)

Second Annual Message (December 06,1886)

Third Annual Message (December 06,1887)

Fourth Annual Message (December 03,1888)

Second Inaugural Address (March 04,1893)

Special Session Message (August 08,1893)

First Annual Message (Second Term) (December 04,1893)

Second Annual Message (Second Term) (December 03,1894)