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This was Eisenhower's shortest State of the Union Address, both in time of delivery at 33 minutes [2] and in word count at just over 4,000. [1] [4] Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson called Eisenhower's speech "a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of the problems which confront our people." [1]
Give Us the Ballot" is a 1957 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. advocating voting rights for African Americans in the United States. King delivered the speech at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. , on May 17.
The speech, released in full by Chinese authorities only in 1985, marks the sole known statement of Mao siding with Khrushchev against the "Anti-Party Group". [ 17 ] Moreover, Mao took advantage of the Moscow meeting to improve Sino-Korean relations, by holding bilateral talks with the Korean leader Kim Il Sung and expressing remorse over ...
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.
Reagan preparing for his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office, 1989. Reagan's effectiveness as a public speaker earned him the moniker, "Great Communicator." ." Former Reagan speechwriter Ken Khachigian wrote, "What made him the Great Communicator was Ronald Reagan's determination and ability to educate his audience, to bring his ideas to life by using illustrations and word ...
Shortly after the release, philanthropist Cyrus S. Eaton offered to sponsor a conference—called for in the manifesto—in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Eaton's birthplace. The conference, held in July 1957, became the first of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, celebrates its 60th anniversary on Friday.. The success of the original park, which opened July 17, 1955, sparked the 1971 opening of Walt Disney World in ...
Mao Zedong expressed his views on the policy in his famous February 1957 speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." The Chinese term derives from the Han Feizi: "There was once a man in the state of Chu, who was selling shields and lances. He was praising them saying: "My shields are so firm, that there is nothing that ...