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Sunday, March 18, 2012

CDs those I recently listened to: Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Volume 2)

This is another CD that I have been listening: Great Speeches of the 20th century (volume 2) - The New Frontier.

In this volume, the following speeches are included;

FDR (Declaration of War Against Japan: “A date which will live in infamy.”

General Douglas MacArthur (Address to congress: “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”

Radio Moscow (Announcement of the launching of Sputnik: “The first artificial earth satellite in the world has now been created.”

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson: Confrontation over the prescience of Russian missiles in Cuba – “Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium and intermediate range missiles at sites in Cuba?”

President Lyndon B. Johnson (On signing the civil rights bill: “We believe that all men are created equal, but many are denied equal treatment.”

Senator Edward Kennedy (Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy: “Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’. I dream things that neverwere and say ‘Why not?”

President Richard M. Nixon (The end of the Vietnam War: “We have today concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.”

Reverend Jesse Jackson (Address to democratic convention: “This is how we were warned it would be.”

President George W. Bush (On commencement of the bombing of Iraq: “The world could wait no longer.”

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