Presidential Speeches Events

1886 Dec 6 State of the Union Address by President Grover Cleveland
The following is an excert from the State of the Union address related to the US relationship with Hawaii: "I express my unhesitating conviction that the intimacy of our relations with...
1913 Mar 4 First Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as 28th US President
Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address THERE has been a change of government. It began two years ago, when the House of Representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It ...
1917 Feb 26 President Wilson Asks Congress to Establish a State of Armed Neutrality
The Germans, while continuing to sink defenceless American vessels, still moved with a degree of caution after the severance of diplomatic relations. True, they had sunk the American frei...
1917 Apr 2 President Woodrow Wilson Delivers War Message to Congress
Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it ...
1952 Sep 23 Richard Nixon Delivers his 'Checkers' Speech
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by United States Senator from California and Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon on television and radio on Septemb...
2009 Feb 24 President Barack Obama's Address to the Joint Session of Congress
SPEECH - PART 1 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and...
2009 May 17 President Barack Obama speaks at University of Notre Dame Commencement
Transcript of Barack Obama's Speech to University of Notre Dame Class of 2009 Well, first of all, congratulations, Class of 2009. Congratulations to all the parents, the cousins _ the ...
2009 Jun 15 President Obama speaks to doctors at AMA Annual Meeting
In a speech before the American Medical Association today, President Obama pushed his health-reform agenda, defending his push for a public health-insurance option and speaking in favor o...