President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a dramatic call to the American people to protect and defend four universal human ideals in his State of the Union address on this day in history, Jan. 6, ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study in ...

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pt. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- pt. 2. Political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton v. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- Argument ...

Side 1. Kennedy's complete inaugural address (Jan. 20, 1961) -- Side 2. Excerpts from F.D.R. speeches. 1st inaugural address (March 4, 1933) ; Fireside chat (April 29, 1935) ; 2nd acceptance (June 27, ...

In the long hot weeks of summer Franklin Roosevelt looked down his nose, disparaging the idea that he should campaign for reelection. When late in droughty August he began making “nonpolitical” ...