Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory

Bully Pulpit (2:50)

Eureka! (6:08)

Inaugural (8:22)

The Radio Priest (4:47)

The Kingfish (7:08)

The Wild Man from Sugar Creek (5:26)

Greatest of Them All? (3:58)

Roosevelt's "Grilled Millionaire" Delivery (2:42)

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Declaration of War on Japan (6:12)

Franklin D. Roosevelt Responds to Republican Attacks (2:14)

General George Patton's Controversial Outspokenness (4:07)

John L. Lewis Lectures Congress (7:00)

General Douglas MacArthur: "Old Soldiers Never Die" (13:14)

Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (10:50)

Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt (16:45)

Nikita Khrushchev Versus Richard Nixon: The Post-Kitchen Debate (9:56)

Election 1960 (5:28)

John F. Kennedy: Television, Image, and the American Presidency (1:07)

John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (10:42)

John F. Kennedy Calls for Peace (4:53)

John F. Kennedy Denounces the Berlin Wall (6:31)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspires the Civil Rights Movement (3:35)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Proclaims "I Have a Dream" (12:53)

Kennedy excerpt (12:52)

Malcolm X Calls for Black Nationalism (8:50)

Nelson Rockefeller Denounces Barry Goldwater (6:26)

Barry Goldwater Accepts the 1964 Republican Presidential Nomination (2:33)

Ronald Reagan Delivers "The Speech" for Barry Goldwater (7:16)

Robert Kennedy Grieves Martin Luther King, Jr. (8:19)

Barbara Jordan Educates Congress on Impeachment (12:59)

Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address (13:27)

Mario Cuomo Addresses the Democratic National Convention (8:55)

Jesse Jackson's Powerful Oratory (9:14)

Public Speaking and Eloquence (1:50)