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White House Photographic Office, Tear down this wall!, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, June 12 1987

"Tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June…

Tags: Berlin Wall, Freedom, Reagan, Soviet Union, Speech

White House, "Chance for Peace" Speech - Dwight Eisenhower, Eisenhower Presidential Library, U.S. Embassy, History.com, May 29, 1959

The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953,…

Tags: Arms Spending, Defense, Eisenhower, Poverty, Priorities, Public Needs

US Senate National Public Radio, Inc., John McCain, A Call for Compromise in Public Service, U.S. Senate, National Public Radio, Inc., New York Times, Channel 12 News Author: Hayden Packwood (KPNX), Publisher: 12News. Published: 12:00 PM MST September 1, 2017, July 25, 2017

Former senator John McCain, in a speech dated July 25, 2017, criticizes the winner-take-all approach of modern politics. Rather, McCain emphasises in…

Tags: Compromise, John McCain, Politics, Public Service, Tribalism, US Senate

US Government, Post Office Department, U.S. Senate, Lincoln-Douglas debates, US Government, Post Office Department, U.S. Senate, 1958

The Lincoln-Douglas debates can be can be defined as a series of seven debates between incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas, as the Democratic Party…

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Historic, Illinois, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Slavery, Unied States

Unknown, FDR'S Fireside Chats, National Records and Archives Administration, March 12 1933

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly referred to as “FDR,”who took executive office in early 1933, would become the only president in American…

Tags: FDR, Fireside Chats, Great Depression, Historic, Radio, WWII

Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, Pro Rhetoric, American Association of Universities (AAU), Mary Sue Coleman, A Call for Saving Public Higher Education, UC Berkeley, September 27, 2016

Mary Sue Coleman, President of the Association of American Universities, delivered a compelling speech on September 27, 2016, at the Times Higher…

Tags: College, Education, Mary Sue Coleman, Public Education, Public Good, Research

Televison, Jacinda Ardern, A Call for Tolerance and Rejecting Hate, Government of New Zealand, March 15 2019

In a speech dated March 15, 2019, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks of the Christchurch Shooting Massacre. Ardern emphasizes…

Tags: Anti-Racism, Christchurch, diversity, Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand, Pluralism, Tolerance

New York University, Northwestern University's Department of Political Science, Cody Keenan, Taking Risks in Public Service, NYU, May 19, 2015 2020

In an address dated May 19, 2015, former President Obama's Senior Advisor and Chief Speechwriter, Cody Keenan, advises public service graduates to…

Tags: Cody Keenan, Failure, Public Service, Risk-Taking, Speech

NASA, We choose to go to the Moon, NASA Today's History.org, September 12 1962

"We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled as the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a speech delivered by United…

Tags: Apollo Program, JFK, Moon, Space, Speech

Mobile World Congress, Amina J. Mohammed, A Call for Ethical Uses of Technology, Mobile World Congress, United Nations, February 25, 2019

On February 25, 2019, Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed talked about the pace of technological change at the Mobile World Congress. She…

Tags: Access, Amina J. Mohammed, Inequality, Innovation, Privacy, Public Good, Technology