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It was Reagan's seventh and final State of the Union Address and his eighth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker , Jim Wright , accompanied by George H. W. Bush , the vice president .
Address to the nation regarding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The speech is ranked as one of the ten best American political speeches of the 20th century [16] Washington, D.C. 1986: February 4: The 1986 State of the Union Address was postponed due to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In the speech Reagan calls abortion "a wound in ...
An Oval Office address is a type of speech made by the president of the United States, usually in the Oval Office at the White House. [1] It is considered among the most solemn settings for an address made by a leader, and is most often delivered to announce a major new policy initiative, on the occasion of a leader's departure from office, or ...
This list of national addresses includes speeches by heads of state or heads of government, often broadcast live over various media (usually radio and television) and directed at the general public. These often take the form of an annual address near the end of the year, but can also respond to pressing current and global events.
President Trump’s Friday speech in Long Island became a news story even before the event began for an unusual reason –- the venue’s address.
1890–1900s: Acres of Diamonds speeches by Temple University President Russell Conwell, the central idea of which was that the resources to achieve all good things were present in one's own community. 1893: Swami Vivekananda's address at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, in which the Indian sage introduced Hinduism to North America.
For three decades, The Hill newspaper has been an integral part of the Washington scene, the place to go for the latest news from Congress, the White House and the campaign trail.
Katie Hill gave her impassioned final speech in Congress Thursday, amid allegations of an affair with a Capitol Hill staff member. The 32-year-old Democratic speaking publicly for the first time ...