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The Remarks at Amherst College on the Arts at the Presidential Convocation and Groundbreaking for the Robert Frost Library is a speech delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy about the arts and liberal education in honor of the American poet Robert Frost to the students and faculty of Amherst College, a liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963.
1979: A speech on U.S. energy policy by President Jimmy Carter speaks of a "crisis of confidence" among the country's public, and comes to be known as the "malaise" speech, despite Carter not using that word in the address. 1983: Evil Empire, a phrase used in speeches by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to refer to the Soviet Union.
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 ...
Hamer’s groundbreaking speech and her tireless fight for civil and human rights paved the way for this historic moment. And yet despite this progress, the challenges Hamer called out still ...
The film looks at whether any progress has been made with treating women's rights as human rights, since twenty years ago, when in 1995, Hillary Clinton made a groundbreaking speech at the Fourth Women's Conference in Beijing. It features interviews with the only three women to have held the position of Secretary of State, as of 2015.
Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. In his speech, Kennedy characterized space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit that dominated American folklore. He infused the speech with a sense of urgency and destiny, and ...
In 1995, Clinton delivered a groundbreaking speech at the United Nation's Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, declaring that "human rights are women's rights, and women's rights ...
Whether the Schumer speech represents a headline or a trend line in US-Israeli relations may well depend on a return of the affinity of values and interests that have linked the two countries ...