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This program features five vital speeches: Mario Cuomo's 1984 DNC keynote address; Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential acceptance; Barbara Jordan's 1976 DNC keynote address; Hubert Humphrey's vice presidential acceptance speech; and John F. Kennedy's address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.
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This volume features five major speeches: Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" speech; Richard Nixon's presidential resignation; Geraldine Ferraro vice presidential acceptance speech; Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech; and Jeane Kirkpatrick's statement on the KAL 007 disaster.
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This volume features six vital speeches: Barack Obama's Tucson shooting memorial address; Sarah Palin's 2010 Reagan dinner address; Arlen Specter's farewell address; Nancy Pelosi's "Turning Over the Gavel" speech; John Boehner's speech upon becoming speaker of the House; and Richard Nixon's second inaugural address.
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This video features five key speeches: Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech; George W. Bush's eulogy for Columbia astronauts; Lyndon B. Johnson's speech at Johns Hopkins University; Cesar Chavez's "The Power of Nonviolence" speech; and Geneva Overholser's "What Is Good Journalism?" speech.
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This video features five key speeches: John Roberts' Georgetown Law School commencement address; John Murtha's "Time to Leave Iraq" speech; Jean Rohe's "Standing Up to Power" speech; John McCain's New School commencement address; and Richard Nixon's first inaugural address.
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Jonathan Haidt studies how and why we evolved to be moral. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can learn to be tolerant of those whose morals don't match ours, but who are equally good and moral people on their own terms. In this TEDTalk, Haidt explores five moral precepts that form the basis of our value systems, whether we're left, right, or center. However, he also pinpoints the differing values that liberals and conservatives...
87) Great Speeches: Volume 22,Elie Wiesel, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald Ford
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This volume features five major speeches: Elie Wiesel's 2006 Dartmouth College commencement address; John Boehner speech to introduce the House speaker; Nancy Pelosi's speech upon taking office as the first woman speaker of the House; Jimmy Carter's eulogy for Gerald Ford; and Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon.
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This video features five memorable speeches: Barack Obama's eulogy for Ted Kennedy; Neville Isdell's (president of Coca-Cola) "Building a Culture of Ethics" speech; Al Sharpton's eulogy for Michael Jackson; Ted Kennedy Jr.'s eulogy for Ted Kennedy; and Ronald Reagan's 1980 inaugural address.
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This program features five critical speeches: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Wilkes University commencement address; George H. W. Bush's dedication of the Clinton Presidential Center; George W. Bush's second inaugural address; Franklin D. Roosevelt's third inaugural address; and Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth inaugural address.
90) Campaign '08
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This sixth episode of The Campaign Series features key speeches from the 2008 Democratic National Convention by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mark Warner, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson Jr., and John Kerry; and from the 2008 Republican National Convention by Jim Leach, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Norm Coleman, George W. Bush, and Tom Ridge, as well as Democrat Joe Lieberman.
91) Revolution
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"Are you fed up with the status quo? Do you ask yourself why 1% of the world owns nearly half the wealth? Are you appalled that in a year of recession, banker's bonuses rose by around 64%? Does it anger you that multi-million dollar corporations pay hardly any tax? Do you trust your government? Always insightful, irreverent but funny, Russell Brand is asking the questions the public wants answered. This is his call to arms. This is Russell Brand's...
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This program with Bill Moyers examines leadership, the presidency, and the presidential election of 1992. Featured in the program are Abraham Zaleznik, author of Learning Leadership; Steve Pieczenik, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Fernando Moreno, editor of El Diario, who talks about the Latino voice in the elections; and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communications, who analyzes the campaign itself and...
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This program with Bill Moyers examines the effect of political contributions on public policy. The program shows how campaign contributions to key committee members of Congress helped cause the Savings and Loan debacle; how a loophole in the campaign finance law is permitting large cash contributions-so called "soft money"-to undermine the public financing of presidential campaigns; and how special interest money from the $700 billion health care...
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"Voter suppression has plagued America since its inception, and so has the issue of identity-who is really American and what that means. When tied together, as they are in our modern politics, citizens are harmed in overt, subtle, and even personal ways. Stacey Abrams experienced the effects firsthand, running one of the most unconventional races in modern politics as the Democratic nominee for the governorship in Georgia and the first black woman...
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged voters Thursday not to give in to the politics of fear. She vowed to unite the country and move it forward if elected in November. Clinton formally accepted the Democratic Party's nomination at its national convention in Philadelphia. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone has more.