The president's speech: the stories behind the most memorable presidential addresses Vilade, C. Edwin

Table of Contents:

• President George Washington
o Farewell Address to the American People September 19, 1796

• President Thomas Jefferson
o First Inaugural Address March 4, 1801

• President James Monroe
o Seventh Annual Message to Congress December 2, 1823

• President Abraham Lincoln
o First Inaugural Address March 4, 1861
o Second Inaugural Address March 4, 1865

• President Theodore Roosevelt
o Address at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives April 14, 1906

• President Woodrow Wilson
o Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress January 8, 1918

• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
o First Inaugural Address March 4, 1933
o State of the Union Address January 6, 1941
o Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress December 8, 1941

• President Harry S. Truman
o Contents note continued: Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress March 12, 1947

• President Dwight David Eisenhower
o Farewell Address to the American People January 17, 1961

• President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
o Inaugural Address January 20, 1961
o Address at Rice University September 12, 1962

• President Lyndon Baines Johnson
o Presidential Address to Joint Session of Congress March 15, 1965

• President Richard Milhous Nixon
o Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam November 3, 1969

• President Ronald Wilson Reagan
o Address on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day June 6, 1984
o Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger January 28, 1986
o Address on East-West Relations June 12, 1987
o President George Herbert Walker Bush
o Inaugural Address January 20, 1989.

A readable analysis of 25 momentous presidential speeches that provides context and understanding of events and history, illustrated with facsimiles of supporting documents, notes, and drafts that together formed the final speech.

The book examines the pivotal, often familiar, and potent speeches and addresses of dozens of U.S. presidents to reveal the varied and often conflicting points of view that shaped the final famous words. We see in many examples, the actual edited final speech, showing how remarkable and forceful language was crafted, sometimes last minute, into the enduring words made famous by their timing.

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