"I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance ... and one night late it came to me this way. We could not leave (the Philippines) to themselves--they were unfit for self-government--and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was... There was nothing left for us to do but take them all and educate the Filipinos, and uplift and Christianize them."
John Adams (1797-1801) Barack Obama (2008-2016)
Lincoln spoke generally about the human cost of war
The first president to appear on television was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He spoke on April 30th, 1939 at the opening ceremonies of the World's Fair, but Harry Truman was the first president to give an address from the White House, occurring in 1947.
Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese with his wife when they did not want to be overheard in the White House.
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the first president who spoke on radio was wilson.
No. John F. Kennedy made these words famous in his inaugural address in 1961.
135 words by President George Washington, made during his second inaugural address.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
The president spoke to congress, but he also spoke to the nation (and the world at large), since the address was televised, broadcast on radio and streamed on the internet.
Richard Niixon in 1969
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Thomas Jefferson