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Presidential Speeches
… in marking the character of the power than any subsequent events. I allude to the payment of $15,000,000 for the … must be obvious to all, and equally so that the events of the present session are well calculated to awaken … the character of the country. The experience of the past has shown that the opinion of Congress is subject to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… him outside a committee hearing and walk him to his next event and talk to him. I think all the staff tried to remain …
Presidential Speeches
… In this speech, President Johnson recounts the events leading up to the deployment of Federal troops to … including the violence and deaths that had occurred in the past few hours, and submitted as the unanimous judgment of …
Presidential Speeches
… they did not own. If they intended to extend it, in the event of acquiring additional territory, why did they not say … that slavery will not go to Kansas and Nebraska, in any event. This is a palliation---a lullaby. I have some hope … they did not own. If they intended to extend it, in the event of acquiring additional territory, why did they not say …
Presidential Speeches
… of the French Monarch, that the injurious delays of the past will find redress in the equity of the future. Our … of Europe, has hitherto been withheld from us. During the past summer an antecedent but unsuccessful attempt to obtain … by Spain of a pacific policy toward her former colonies—an event consoling to humanity, and a blessing to the world, in …
Presidential Speeches
… thus required by law was rendered very doubtful by the event to which I have referred. Sensible that adequate … in its violence to the extraordinary character of the events which preceded it. The commercial community of Great …
Presidential Speeches
… outsourcing and draw new jobs to our shores. And over the past five years, our businesses have created more than 11 … lending and abusive credit card practices. And in the past year alone, about 10 million uninsured Americans finally … (Applause.) We may have different takes on the events of Ferguson and New York. But surely we can …
Presidential Speeches
… And has had her on his payroll for the ten years—the past ten years. Now just let me say this. That's his business … an unbiased view when he presented his case to you in the event that he had one before the Government. And so I felt … and as a Senator. Second, I have received a total in this past six years of $1600 from estates which were in my law …
Presidential Speeches
… there is a chance for an opening, a new course in human events. I think I detected a sense of excitement, even … According to one organization, Freedom House, in the past 15 years the number of countries called not free … Union today is a change of a different order than in the past. For example, whatever the Khrushchev era may or may not …
Presidential Speeches
… kind of war. It is different from all other wars of the past, not only in its methods and weapons but also in its … people. The broad oceans which have been heralded in the past as our protection from attack have become endless … our strategy – a strategy born of necessity – that in the event of a full-scale attack on the Islands by Japan, we …
Public Events
… the first function of journalism, and we just can’t walk past that, because I think, in the end, smart, objective … by getting a paper out the next day and covering the event, having been victims of it. But my view is that 9/11 … the whole trauma of this thing set in motion a series of events that were unimaginable before, and that’s how we got …
Presidential Speeches
… THE PRESIDENT: This past week the United States has demonstrated anew in at least … East African states where we can hardly expect to control events, but we can help these nations preserve their freedom … to create an air of emergency about these or other events. Our work proceeds both day and night, quietly, …
Presidential Speeches
… any means necessary, including military force. During the past three years, you have joined with me to improve our own … of Israel. In a few days we will observe an historic event when Israel makes another major withdrawal from the … the Congress in a concentrated and persistent way over the past three years to meet this need. We have made progress …
Presidential Speeches
… Americans agree. On a less general level, however, the events and frustrations of these past few difficult weeks have inspired a number of questions … any more clearly than I have stated it many times in the past--or than the distinguished Secretary of State, Mr. Rusk, …
Presidential Speeches
… and critical stage in its long and important history. In past decades many of the countries in that area were not … who are dedicated to freedom and thus prevent a chain of events which would gravely endanger all of the free world. … must not be thrown away. In those momentous periods of the past, the President and the Congress have united, without …
Presidential Speeches
… liberal, has adjourned. Barring unforeseen events, there will be no session until the new Congress, to … with their own Government than they have in the past. Such cooperation on the part of both of them will be … have fought against progress with tooth and nail in the past. And now following out this line of thought, I want to …
Presidential Speeches
… recommendations. Here is what I said: This nation in the past two years has become an active partner in the world's … They are laboring under the delusion that the time is past when we must make prodigious sacrifices—that the war is … with respect to these and further proposals. In the event that no adequate program of progress is evolved, I am …
Presidential Speeches
… relationship with other industries. It was on account of past depression, and in spite of present more encouraging … of the soil. RAILWAYS The railways during the past year have made still further progress in recuperation … still. It would seem to be perfectly plain from recent events that it is determined to go forward. But it wants no …
Presidential Speeches
… guarantee freedom and equality to all our citizens. Recent events in the United States and abroad have made us realize … bring us closer to our ideal. We can reach the goal. When past difficulties faced our Nation we met the challenge with …
Presidential Speeches
… of America. The provincial standards and policies of the past, which have held American business as if in a … the cost of living. No one who has observed the march of events in the last year can fail to note the absolute need of … if there should ensue a return to the conditions of the past. Europe itself, whence has come the unrest which now …