Barry Goldwater’s Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination
“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” was the biggest applause line of Barry Goldwater’s speech accepting his party’s nomination as a presidential candidate. …
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President JFK’s UN Address on Weather Modification
“if the Soviets control space they can control earth, as in past centuries the nation that controlled the seas dominated the continents.” Senator John F. …
JFK: “The Very Word “Secrecy” is Repugnant in a Free and Open Society; and We Are as a People Inherently and Historically Opposed to Secret Societies, to Secret Oaths…”
This is a portion of the speech that President John F. Kennedy gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961. “The President and the …
John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Address: “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You; Ask What You Can Do for Your Country!”
[Taking the oath of Office] Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens: We …
Mike Wallace Interviews ‘Brave New World’ Author, Aldous Huxley
The video below features a 1958 interview of Aldous Huxley with Mike Wallace. It really is a great glimpse from the past. Wallace was smoking …
India’s Independence Day is Declared from Britain, but Did India Really Become Independent?
The day India supposed gained its independence from Britain, however the unadorned truth is, India attained only the status of a self-ruled colony of the …
President Harry Truman Address at the Lighting of the National Community Christmas Tree on the White House Grounds
[Broadcast nationally at 5:15 p.m.] Fellow citizens everywhere: Again our thoughts and aspirations and the hopes of future years turn to a little town in …
WHO gives a broad definition of ‘Health’ at the International Health Conference in NY making it Possible to Link Mental Health / Psychiatry to Education
At the end of the Second World War, Canadian psychiatrist Brock Chisholm wrote that “a program of re-education or a new kind of education” needed …
Franklin Roosevelt’s Famous “Four Freedoms” Speech
Three years after this speech, on January 11 of 1944, FDR gave his State of the Union address, where he expanded on what he saw …
Calvin Coolidge Address Before the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. – “… As there were Fathers in our Republic so there were Mothers.”
Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Coming to address the Thirty-fifth Continental Congress of the National Society of the Daughters American Revolution reminds …