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It was Kennedy's second State of the Union Address. Presiding over this joint session was newly elected House speaker John W. McCormack, accompanied by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. Kennedy began his speech with a tribute to former House Speaker Sam Rayburn who had recently died in office:
Said by Barry Goldwater in his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention. [12] "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" slogan of anti-war protests during the Vietnam War "America, love it or leave it", slogan of pro-war protests during the Vietnam War "Let me say this about that", frequently said by President ...
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Pegging 12 of the most important speeches and moments in American politics is no easy feat. From Washington to Lincoln, from Kennedy to Reagan, these are the names, faces and moments that have ...
Khrushchev was deeply moved and impressed by Kennedy's speech, telling Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman that it was "the greatest speech by any American President since Roosevelt." [14] [15] After 12 days of negotiations and less than two months after the president's speech the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was completed. [3]
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 one of the most important in his political career.
The late Sen. Bob Dole was known as a slugger, and Vice President Spiro Agnew played hit man for Richard Nixon, who had made his bones as Dwight Eisenhower’s heavy 20 years earlier.
Kennedy's speech on the nation's space effort delivered at Rice Stadium on September 12, 1962. The portion of the speech quoted on the left begins at 9:03. On September 12, 1962, a warm and sunny day, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of about 40,000 people, at Rice University's Rice Stadium. Many individuals in the crowd ...