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e. Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, commonly known by the sentence in the middle of the speech " We choose to go to the Moon ", was a speech on September 12, 1962 by John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States. The aim was to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970 and bring ...
52°29′06″N13°20′40″E52.484932°N 13.344395°E " Ich bin ein Berliner " (German pronunciation: [ɪç ˈbɪn ʔaɪn bɛʁˈliːnɐ]; " I am a Berliner ") is a speech by United States President John F. Kennedy given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin. It is one of the best-known speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anti ...
The American University speech, titled "A Strategy of Peace", was a commencement addressdelivered by United States PresidentJohn F. Kennedyat the American Universityin Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963.[1] Widely considered one of the most powerful speeches Kennedy delivered,[2]he not only outlined a plan to curb nuclear arms, but also ...
The Berlin Wall Speech was delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987. The speech is commonly known by a key line from the middle part: " Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! " Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall ...
The Report to the American People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963, in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Expressing civil rights as a moral issue, Kennedy moved past ...
"The Dream Shall Never Die" was a speech delivered by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy during the 1980 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, New York City.In his address, Kennedy defended post-World War II liberalism, advocated for a national healthcare insurance model, criticized Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, and implicitly rebuked incumbent president Jimmy Carter ...
The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech, was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and declared war on ...
Let Us Continue. An excerpt from the speech where Johnson says "Let Us Continue". Let Us Continue is a speech that 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson delivered to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. The almost 25-minute speech is considered ...