VO: Michelle Obama. (Music, applause) (Laughs) (Music, applause) Oh. (Applause) Thank you all. Thank you so much. You know, it’s hard to believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this convention to talk with you about why I thought my husband should be President. (Applause) Remember how I told you … [Read more…]
Transcription by: Accurate Secretarial LLC Good evening. Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem that is unprecedented in our history. With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge that our country will face during our lifetime. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it … [Read more…]
(Applause) Boehner: Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you, the Prime Minister of Israel, his Excellency, Benjamin Netanyahu. (Applause) Netanyahu: Thank you. x1 (Applause) Netanyahu: Thank you. x2 (Applause) Netanyahu: Speaker of the House John Boehner, president pro tem Senator Orrin Hatch, Senator Minority, Majority Leader Mitch … [Read more…]
Voice over: President Bush in Iraq to sign a U.S/Iraq security agreement that calls for U.S. troops to withdraw by the end of 2011. At a news conference and ceremony in Baghdad with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al, Maliki, President Bush had a pair of shoes thrown at him. The President ducked and was not … [Read more…]
The C-SPAN Networks bring you long-form public affairs programming from the nation’s capital and are a public service of your television provider. C-SPAN, created by cable. Obama: Today as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder, the horrific massacre of dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families, who are grasping for answers with broken … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 18 (Recording noise) FDR: My fellow Americans, the Navy Department of the United States has reported to me that on the morning of September fourth the United States destroyer Greer, proceeding in full daylight toward Iceland, had reached a point southeast of Greenland. She was carrying American mail to Iceland. She … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 20 VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My fellow Americans, Washington’s Birthday is a most appropriate occasion for us to talk with each other about things as they are today and things as we know they shall be in the future. For eight years, General Washington … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 21 FDR: My fellow Americans, it is nearly five months since we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. For the two years prior to that attack this country had been gearing itself up to a high level of production of munitions. And yet our war efforts had done little to dislocate … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 22 VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My friends, I wish that all Americans could read all the citations for various medals recommended for our soldiers and sailors and marines. I am picking out one of these citations which tells of the accomplishments of Lieutenant John … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 14 FDR: My countrymen and my friends, tonight my single duty is to speak to the whole of America. Until four-thirty o’clock this morning I had hoped against hope that some miracle would prevent a devastating war in Europe and bring to an end the invasion of Poland by Germany. For … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 15 FDR: My friends, at this moment of sadness throughout most of the world, I want to talk with you about a number of subjects that directly affect the future of the United States. We are shocked by the almost incredible eyewitness stories that come to us, stories of what … [Read more…]
Transcripts of Fireside chat 19 VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My fellow Americans, the sudden criminal attacks perpetrated by the Japanese in the Pacific provide the climax of a decade of international immorality. Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war upon the whole human race. Their … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 16 (Inaudible) FDR: My friends, this is not a fireside chat on war. It is a talk on national security, because the nub of the whole purpose of your president is to keep you now, and your children later, and your grandchildren much later, out of a last-ditch war for the … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 23 FDR: My fellow Americans. As you know, I have recently come back from a trip of inspection of camps and training stations and war factories. The main thing that I observed on this trip is not exactly news. It is the plain fact that the American people are united as … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 24 VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My fellow Americans, I am speaking tonight to the American people, and in particular to those of our citizens who are coal miners. Tonight this country faces a serious crisis. We’re engaged in a war on the successful outcome … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 25 (Recording noise) VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My fellow Americans, over a year and a half ago I said this to the Congress. The militarists in Berlin and Rome and Tokyo started this war, but the massed, angered forces of common humanity will … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 26 FDR: My Fellow Americans, once upon a time, a few years ago, there was a city in our Middle West which was threatened by a destructive flood in the great river. The waters had risen to the top of the banks. Every man, woman and child in that city … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 29 VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My Friends, yesterday, on June fourth, 1944, Rome fell to American and Allied troops. The first of the Axis capitals is now in our hands. One up and two to go. It is perhaps significant that the first … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 30 (Recording noise) FDR: Ladies and gentlemen. All our fighting men overseas today have their appointed stations on the far-flung battlefronts of the world. And we at home have ours too. We need, we are proud of our fighting men, most decidedly. But, during the anxious times ahead, let us not … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 27 (Recording noise) VO: Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My friends, I have recently returned from extensive journeyings in the region of the Mediterranean and as far as the borders of Russia. I have conferred with the leaders of Britain and Russia and China on military … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 12 FDR: My friends, five months have gone by since I last spoke to the people of the nation about the state of the nation. I had hoped to be able to defer this talk until next week because, as we all know, this is Holy Week, but what I want … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 13 FDR: My friends, the American public and the American newspapers are certainly creatures of habit. This is one of the warmest evenings that I have ever felt in Washington, D.C., and yet this talk tonight will be referred to as a fireside talk. Our government, happily, is a democracy. As … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 6 (Silence) FDR: –that report– (Audio cuts out) –though because of the shortness of time, I must defer a number of subjects to a later date. Recently the most notable public questions that have concerned us all have had to do with industry and labor and with respect to these, certain … [Read more…]
Transcripts of Fireside chat #10 FDR: My friends, this afternoon I have issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Congress to convene on Monday, November 15th, 1937. I do this in order to give to the Congress an opportunity to consider important legislation before the regular session in January and to enable … [Read more…]
Transcripts of Fireside chat #9 (Recording noise) VO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. FDR: My friends, last Thursday I described in detail certain economic problems which everyone admits now face the nation. For the many messages which have come to me after that speech, and which it is physically impossible to … [Read more…]
Transcripts of Fireside chat #8 FDR: My friends, I have been on a journey of husbandry. I went primarily to see it first hand conditions in the drought states, to see how effectively federal and local authorities are taking care of pressing problems of relief and also how they are to work together to defend … [Read more…]
Transcript of Fireside chat 2 FDR: On a Sunday night a week after my inauguration, I used the radio to tell you about the banking crisis and about the measures we were taking to meet it. In that way I tried to make clear to the country various facts that might otherwise have been misunderstood, … [Read more…]
Transcription by Accurate Secretarial LLC MC: (inaudible) 1889 when the Neshoba County Fair was first organized, we have had many illustrious statesmen to visit with us. But this is the first time in our history that we have ever had a nominee for President of the United States. (Audience cheers) Audience member: El Presidente. MC: … [Read more…]