Collection Items
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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 RecordingLabor's service to freedom A speech by Samuel Gompers, president, American Federation of Labor. "In addition to the fundamental principles at issue, labour has a further interest in the war. This war is a people's war, labor's war. The final outcome will be determined in the factories, the mills, the shops, the mines, the farms, the industries and the transportation agencies of the various countries."
- Contributor: Gompers, Samuel - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingAmerica's choice and opportunity Speech by Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War. "A new history of the world will be written and it will date, I think, from the beginning of this war."
- Contributor: Baker, Newton Diehl - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingThe nation in arms Speech by Franklin K. Lane, U.S. Secretary of the Interior. "We are fighting Germany because she sought to terrorize us and then to fool us... Germany has never asked forgiveness of the world [for sinking the Lusitania]...Belgian starving ...piteous cries of children...friendly, harmless, terrorized people."
- Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Lane, Franklin K.
- Date: 1918-01-01
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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 RecordingAt Valley Forge Speech by Champ Clark, U.S. Representative from Missouri and Speaker of House. "We are assembled here to pay tribute to the deeds of a portion of the brave men who made us free. [Valley Forge was] the most heroic and without question the most pathetic chapter in the history of the American Army."
- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Clark, Champ - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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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 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 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
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Audio RecordingWhat are we fighting for?
What are we fight for? Speech by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, in which Dr. Wise poses the question: "What are we fighting for? My answer to mothers and fathers is, enviable and even glorious is your lot to give your son or bless their dedication to the highest and holiest of causes in which a people was ever engaged."- Contributor: Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingThe third Liberty Loan Patriotic speech by Richard A. Purdy on behalf of the third Liberty Loan drive. Purdy was a member of the Four Minute Men, a national network of volunteers authorized by President Woodrow Wilson to deliver patriotic speeches during the four minutes between reels changing in movie theaters across the country. Coordinated by the U.S. Committee on Public Information, the Four Minute Men generated support...
- Contributor: A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Purdy, Richard A. (Richard Augustus)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingFrom the battlefields of France A patriotic appeal by the U.S. Army to Americans for "their unshrinking support" delivered by General John J. Pershing, Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces.
- Contributor: Pershing, John J. (John Joseph) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Jim Walsh Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01
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Audio RecordingLoyalty Speech given by Ambassador James Watson Gerard as warning to German Americans, "Every citizen must declare himself American -- or traitor!"
- Contributor: Gerard, James W. (James Watson) - Nation's Forum Collection (Library of Congress) - Jim Walsh Collection (Library of Congress) - A.F.R. Lawrence Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1918-01-01