Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence *Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you expressing your concern about the issues...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt The Four Freedoms Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress: I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word unprecedented because at no p...
Richard M. Nixon Resignation Address to the Nation Good evening: This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation. Each time I have done so to discuss with you s...
Hello, everybody. I'm speaking to you this week from the Boeing Plant in Everett, Washington. Boeing has been in this community for half a century. But it's what they're doing here today that has folks really excited; because at this plant they're bu...
感恩节(Thanksgiving Day)是美国和加拿大共有的节日，时间为每年11月的第四个星期四。是一个仅次于圣诞节的重要节日。原意是为了感谢上天赐与的好收成。美国家庭都要举行 丰盛的感恩宴，常...
The keynote speaker at the 1980 Democratic convention in New York was the man who had hoped to get the nomination for president, Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. He had unsuccessfully opposed Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter whose own political...
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. I'm going to just have a few quick remarks. We just had a productive meeting with Speaker Boehner, as well as Majority Leader Reid. We discussed the impasse（僵局，死路） that we're currently at with res...
THE PRESIDENT: I want to take a brief moment just to say a few words about a tragic event that took place earlier today in Frankfurt, Germany. I'm saddened and I am outraged（愤慨的） by this attack that took the lives of two Americans and wound...
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Secretary Clinton and I just concluded a meeting that focused on the ongoing（不间断的，进行的） situation in Libya. Over the last few days, my national security team has been working around the clo...
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Everybody have a seat. First of all, let's give thanks that it's not raining, because we thought it might be and we were worried that Bobby would be sending smoke into the White House. But it's a beautiful day. I want...
