John F. Kennedy, telegram to George Wallace, 10 June 1963:I am gratified by the dedication to law and order expressed in your telegram informing me of your use of National Guardsmen at the University of Alabama. The only announced threat to orderly compliance with the...
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Gerald Ford, discussing the New Jersey, Ohio and California primary results with reporters, 9 June 1976:I think the polls as a whole indicate that I am electable. We have an.
Woodrow Wilson, speaking about the recent US occupation of Vera Cruz during his commencement address at the US Naval Academy, 5 June 1914:What do you think is the most lasting.
Benjamin Harrison, remarking on the Johnstown Flood, 4 June 1889:It would be wholly superfluous for me to attempt to set before you more impressively than the newspapers have already done the horrors attending the calamity which has fallen upon the city of Johnstown and the...
Jimmy Carter, speaking at a memorial service for Adva Philip Randolph, 3 June 1979:The President of the United States has many invitations to speak, a thousand invitations for each one.
Ronald Reagan, remarks on US policy in the Persian Gulf, 29 May 1987Now, I will not permit the Middle East to become a chokepoint for freedom or a tinderbox of.
George H.W. Bush, speaking at a fundraiser for John McCain, 28 May 1992:I am quietly confident about the election this fall. In sum, I am absolutely convinced as this economy moves back, as we sort out where everybody stands on these highly complex issues, when...
George W. Bush, speaking about Osama bin Laden at a press conference, 24 May 2007:Why is he at large? Because we haven't got him yet, Jim. That's why. And he's.
Gerald Ford, delivering the commencement address at Warner Pacific College, 23 May 1976:Our national life has reached a point where we must recover transcendent qualities of spirituality and morality. I.
John F. Kennedy, during a news conference, 22 May 1963[W]e would withdraw the troops, any number of troops, any time the Government of South Viet-Nam would suggest it. The day after it was suggested, we would have some troops on their way home. That is...
Benjamin Harrison, in a letter to the Virginia Baptist Convention, 21 May 1892:Lynchings are a reproach to any community; they impeach the adequacy of our institutions for the punishment of.
Ronald Reagan, during remarks at the signing of the Just Say No Week proclamation, 20 May 1986:Because of these grassroots efforts, all of us, inside government and out, are seeing.