Who said It-3/4/2013
Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals” in Orlando, Florida” (March 8, 1983) While America’s military strength is important, let me add here that...
View Article“In Depth” on Book TV with Kenneth C. Davis
On November 4, 2012, New York Times Bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis sat down for a comprehensive three-hour interview with C-Span’s Book TV. The interview, which included questions from callers and...
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Cherry-Picking Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine: Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 Thirty years ago, on March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered a speech to a group of...
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President Lyndon B. Johnson, The “We Shall Overcome” Speech (March 15, 1965) to the full Congress in which Johnson called for passage of the Voting Rights Act a few days after the Selma, Alabama...
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (Source: NYTimes, PBS/The Court and Democracy,) Earl Warren was born on March 19, 1891 in Los Angeles....
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Pancakes, Politics and the Civil War
Vermont Maple Country(Courtesy Vermont Maple Sugar Makers) Pancakes and Politics? Spring in Vermont. As the temperatures and sap rise, you see the web of sap lines descending from the woods to...
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Who Said It 3/25/13
Dwight D. Eisenhower- “The Cross of Iron” Speech Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the...
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“A lover’s quarrel with the world”-Robert Frost
Robert Frost (Courtesy American Memory Collection (Library of Congress) In honor of his birthday on March 26, 1874, a video tribute to Robert Frost. I had a lover’s quarrel with the world Robert...
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It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you. There are, it may be many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a...
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Thomas Jefferson (born April 13, 1743) “First Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1801 Freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial...
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Who Said It 4/14/2013
Theodore Roosevelt with Reporters at Sagamore HillPhoto Courtesy of Library of Congress Theodore Roosevelt: “The Man With the Muck-Rake” Speech (April 14, 1906) In Pilgrim’s Progress the Man with the...
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Who Said It -4-25-2013
18th President of the U.S.Ulysses S. Grant(Photo Courtesy of Library of Congress) President Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1869) This requires security of person, property, and...
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Who Said It 5/7
President Harry S. Truman, announcing the surrender of Nazi Germany (May 8, 1945) THIS IS a solemn but a glorious hour. I only wish that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day. General...
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Don’t Know Much About Harry S. Truman
The famed headline from the Presidential election of 1948 when Truman came from behind to grab victory (Photo courtesy of Library of Congress-American Memory) I graded him an “A” in Don’t...
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The “New Classics”?
A “Classic,” as Mark Twain memorably defined it, is “a book which people praise but don’t read.” Twain’s definition came to mind when I recently came across a “Recommended Reading List for College...
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James K. Polk “Proclamation 47 – Announcement That a State of War Exists With the Republic of Mexico” May 13, 1846 Whereas the Congress of the United States, by virtue of the constitutional authority...
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Who said it- 5/20/13
President Abraham Lincoln: “Message to Special Session of Congress” July 4, 1861 This is essentially a people’s contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that...
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President Andrew Jackson, “First Annual Message” (“State of the Union”) December 18, 1829 Our conduct toward these people is deeply interesting to our national character. Their present condition,...
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Don’t Know Much About Geography-Revised and Updated Edition
Don’t Know Much About® GeographyRevised & Updated Now available in a revised and updated edition: DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT® GEOGRAPHY: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned...
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Don’t Know Much About® JFK
President John F. Kennedy (1961)(Photo by Alfred Eisenstadt-Courtesy of White House Press Office) Frozen in time as the youthful avatar of a new generation in American politics, John F. Kennedy would...
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