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Audio RecordingNationalism and Americanism Speech by Warren G. Harding, Senator of Ohio. "We need to be rescued from divisionary and fruitless pursuit of peace through super government."
- Contributor: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingLaw and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Audio RecordingLaw and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Audio RecordingLeague of Nations
Trouble with senators who oppose the League of Nations Speech by Gilbert M. Hitchcock, U.S. Senator from Nebraska and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; served Senate floor leader for the League of Nations debate. "The trouble with senators who oppose the League of Nations is that they are thinking of the days that are gone forever. The conquering empires of the world have been wiped out. The world is now democratic."- Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell)
- Date: 1919-01-01
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Audio RecordingSave America Speech by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. "There are elements in our population which teach doctrines that sound strange to the American ear. Such men frankly proclaim their preference for the political philosophy of Lenin and Trotsky to those of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster and Lincoln. The issue is a preservation of the American form of government, with its incomparable blessing of...
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingLeague of Nations Speech by Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, stating his case against President Wilson's League of Nations. "I think of the United States first."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Lodge, Henry Cabot - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919-01-01
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Audio RecordingConfidence in government Speech by Democratic Presidential candidate James M. Cox. "We want our people to have an abiding confidence in government. But no readjustment made under reactionary auspices will earn with it the confidence of the country."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Cox, James M. (James Middleton)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingSave America Speech by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. "There are elements in our population which teach doctrines that sound strange to the American ear. Such men frankly proclaim their preference for the political philosophy of Lenin and Trotsky to those of Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster and Lincoln. The issue is a preservation of the American form of government, with its incomparable blessing of...
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingThe republic must awaken Speech by Warren G. Harding, U.S. Senator from Ohio. "My countrymen: the surpassing war of all times has involved us and found us utterly unprepared in either a mental or military sense."
- Contributor: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingLeague of Nations A speech by Warren G. Harding, U.S. Senator from Ohio, encouraging reservations to the League of Nations Covenant, "I do not believe it will break the heart of the world to make this Covenant right."
- Contributor: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919-01-01
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Audio RecordingPrevention of war Speech by Democratic presidential candidate James M. Cox. "The supreme issue of the century is before us...The League of Nations is in operation. I am in favor of going in."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Cox, James M. (James Middleton)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingLaw and order Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Government is not and must not be a cold, impersonal machine...government must govern. To obey is life; to disobey is death. Organized government is the expression of the life of the commonwealth." Coolidge calls for opposing "imported ideas" and for "prosecution of the criminals and education of the ignorant."
- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Audio RecordingThe Navy is ready Speech by Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. "'We have just begun to fight,' was the slogan of the Navy of '76. That is the slogan of the Navy today."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniels, Josephus - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingSaint Patrick's Day message
St. Patrick's Day address | Saint Patrick's Day address Speech by Éamon De Valera, President, Republic of Ireland. "Sons and daughters of the Gael! Wherever you be today, in the name of the motherland ... it is consistent with your highest duty to link yourselves together to use your united strength to break the chains that bind our sweet sad mother ..."- Contributor: De Valera, Éamon - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingThere is no rank in sacrifice Speech by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. "Men who live valiantly and die nobly, have a strength and a courage from the Eternal Father. Two of these young heroes have recently received high honor: one a graduate of Annapolis, the other an enlisted man."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Daniels, Josephus
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingThe duty of government
Duty Speech by Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. "Law must rest upon the eternal foundations of righteousness... The government is founded upon a righteousness which will endure."- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920
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Audio RecordingAmerica's accomplishment Speech by Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State. "We accomplished our set purpose in an incredibly short time to the bewilderment of the yet admiring world."
- Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Long, Breckinridge
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingOn League of Nations Speech by Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War. "Meanwhile it is necessary to remember that the lack of such a league in 1914 threw the world into the chaos of this war."
- Contributor: Baker, Newton Diehl - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919-01-01
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Audio RecordingAchievements of the Democratic Party
Achievements of Democratic Party Speech by Homer S. Cummings, chairman, Democratic National Committee, as a tribute to President Wilson and his administration, "The hopes of mankind look to the American President."- Contributor: Cummings, Homer S. (Homer Stillé) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919-01-01
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Audio RecordingOne hundred million soldiers Speech by Frank A. Vanderlip, former Assistant Secretary of Treasury and president of the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank). "To win this war, Congress pledged the resources of the United States to the last man and the last dollar. When you applauded that, you agreed that we would be a united nation."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Vanderlip, Frank A. (Frank Arthur) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingThe propaganda of anarchy
Criminal enemies of social order Speech by Miles Poindexter, U.S. Senator from Washington. "If the authority of the courts should be destroyed, if their carefully prepared decrees are arbitrarily and without investigation, merely upon suspicion and general belief set aside, the poor are the ones who will suffer in any such decision."- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Poindexter, Miles - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919-01-01
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Audio RecordingPresident Wilson Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise delivers a tribute to President Wilson's "unequalled" leadership. He is "a great American," and "his place in history is secure."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingReadjustment Speech by Warren G. Harding. "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration; not agitation but adjustment; not surgery but serenity; not the dramatic but the dispassionate; not experiment but equipoise; not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality."
- Contributor: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingRecognition of the Republic of Ireland
No, the Irish do not hate England Speech by Éamon De Valera, President, Republic of Ireland. "No, the Irish do not hate England. The Irish desire peace with England and the rest of the world."- Contributor: De Valera, Éamon - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1920-01-01
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Audio RecordingAmerican rights A speech by William Gibbs McAdoo, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. "Fellow countrymen, this great Republic is facing one of the most extraordinary situations in the world's history. It would be difficult to exagerate the seriousness of the great conflict in which we are engaged."
- Contributor: McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01