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Speeches of the American presidents
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Presents more than 200 major speeches by 45 U.S. presidents, from Washington through Donald Trump.
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- from the editors of H.W. Wilson
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Third edition
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xv, 1093 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781682178829, 168217882X
- OCLC
- on1027685635
- Includes index.
- George Washington : First inaugural address ; First annual message to Congress ; Pacification of the Indians ; Fifth annual message to Congress ; Seventh annual message to Congress ; Farewell address -- John Adams : Inaugural address ; The quasi war with France ; Fourth annual message to Congress -- Thomas Jefferson : Second inaugural address ; Address to the wolf and people of the Mandan Nation ; The failure of the embargo -- James Madison : The course of the war ; James Monroe : The Monroe Doctrine ; The United States and the world -- John Quincy Adams : Internal improvement ; The right of petition ; The nature of federal government -- Andrew Jackson : The removal of the Indians ; The heroes of Bunker Hill ; Defense of the Specie Circular -- Martin Van Buren : Inaugural address ; The path of financial recovery -- William Henry Harrison : Inaugural address -- John Tyler : The annexation of Texas ; The secession of Virginia -- James Knox Polk : Texas and Oregon ; Restatement of the Monroe Doctrine ; The war with Mexico -- Zachary Taylor : The president's plan -- Millard Fillmore : On neutrality in foreign affairs and the Compromise of 1850 -- Franklin Pierce : Inaugural address -- James Buchanan : The equality of the states ; The federal government's helplessness
- Abraham Lincoln : Address at Cooper Institute ; Farewell address at Springfield ; First inaugural address ; Second annual message to Congress ; Gettysburg address ; Second inaugural address ; Last public address -- Andrew Johnson : The progress of reconstruction ; Washington's birthday speech ; Forgiving the South -- Ulysses Simpson Grant : Confession of failure -- Rutherford Birchard Hayes : The reconstructed South ; Civilizing the Indians ; Sound currency ; Federal aid to education ; Civil service reform -- James Abram Garfield : Revolution in Congress ; Inaugural address -- Chester Alan Arthur : Dedication of the Washington National Monument -- Grover Cleveland : Against bimetallism ; The centennial of the Constitution ; The tariff message ; The principles of democracy ; Second inaugural address -- Benjamin Harrison : Inaugural address ; The American worker ; Remarks on the tariff and on voting rights -- William McKinley : War with Spain ; On imperialism ; Trade reciprocity -- Theodore Roosevelt : The strenuous life ; Trusts ; Westward expansion ; The Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine ; The man with the muckrake ; Forests ; The new nationalism ; A confession of faith -- William Howard Taft : The achievements of the Republican Party ; The tariff ; Dollar diplomacy -- Woodrow Wilson : Latin American policy ; Too proud to fight ; The Sussex affair ; War message ; The fourteen points ; Sixth annual message ; For the League of Nations -- Warren Gamaliel Harding : The rights of black citizens ; The burial of the unknown soldier -- Calvin Coolidge : Government and business ; The farmer and the nation ; The Kellogg-Briand Pact -- Herbert Clark Hoover : Acceptance speech ; The veterans' bonus ; Agriculture and the depression ; The Bill of Rights
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt : A New Deal ; First inaugural address ; The good neighbor policy ; Social security ; Second inaugural address ; The reorganization of the judiciary ; The arsenal of democracy ; The four freedoms ; Day of infamy ; Gearing for war ; Campaign speech ; The Yalta conference ; Strong and active faith -- Harry S. Truman : The destruction of Hiroshima ; The Truman Doctrine ; Whistle-stop talks ; The fair deal ; Slandermongers and real Americans ; The struggle for civil rights ; Farewell address -- Dwight David Eisenhower : A chance for peace ; Don't join the bookburners ; Atoms for peace ; The double crisis ; The situation in Little Rock ; The Eisenhower Doctrine in Lebanon ; The U-2 incident ; John Fitzgerald Kennedy : The new frontier ; Inaugural address ; Putting a man on the moon ; The quest for peace ; The Cuban missile crisis ; Civil rights and national morality ; Ich bin ein Berliner ; A step toward peace -- Lyndon Baines Johnson : Let us continue ; The war on poverty ; The great society ; We shall overcome ; Peace without compromise ; Why are we in Vietnam? ; Announcement of refusal to seek reelection -- Richard Milhous Nixon : Checkers speech ; The pursuit of peace ; The invasion of Cambodia ; The new American revolution ; The new economic policy ; The Moscow summit ; The Watergate case ; The resignation speech -- Gerald Randolph Ford : First presidential address ; The pardon for Nixon ; Whip inflation now ; The energy and economic crisis ; Jimmy Carter : Fireside chat ; Human rights and foreign policy ; The Panama Canal ; Peace in the Middle East ; Energy and national goals ; The Carter Doctrine ; Rescue attempt ; Ronald Wilson Reagan : The new federalism ; The evil empire ; Star wars ; The Central American threat ; Lebanon and Grenada ; Terrorist states ; The United Nations' 40th anniversary ; The Challenger disaster ; The Iceland summit ; The Iran-Contra affair ; George Herbert Walker Bush : Acceptance speech ; The invasion of Panama ; The Gulf war ; The new world order ; The Los Angeles riots -- William Jefferson Clinton : The Oslo Accords ; Reform of the health care system ; What would Martin Luther King say? ; Condemning the militias ; Affirmative action ; Gay rights ; Address to Arkansas democrats ; Confession in the Lewinsky affair ; Statement on impeachment ; Air strikes against Iraq ; Postponement of the nuclear missile shield ; George Walker Bush : Address to the nation on September 11, 2001 ; Second state of the union address ; Address to the nation on military operations in Iraq ; Second inaugural address -- Barack Hussein Obama : First inaugural address ; Address to the NAACP centennial convention ; Remarks on health care reform ; First state of the union address ; Remarks on signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ; Remarks announcing death of Osama bin Laden ; Gun control speech 1-15-16 ; Donald John Trump : Boy scout jamboree speech ; Arizona rally speech ; Statement to the United Nations