My Fellow Americans 'My Fellow Americans': Presidential Speeches February 16, 2004 • To mark President's Day, NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Clinton White House speech writer Michael Waldman about "negative" campaign rhetoric and how politicians have used it over the generations. Waldman is author of the book My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Opinion S. Pearl Sharp: Picking Your Own Candidates February 2, 2004 • Commentator S. Pearl Sharp wonders what would happen if she could choose her own candidates for president and other important offices.
'Fraud of the Century' February 17, 2003 • John Ydstie hosts a discussion on the controversy over the election of the 19th U.S. president, Rutherford B. Hayes.
Minnesota Senate Seat October 30, 2002 • In Minnesota, the Democratic Party has officially nominated former Vice President Walter Mondale to run for the U.S. Senate. Minnesota Senate Seat Listen · 0:35 0:35 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/828370/828371" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Remembering the First Nationally Televised Convention July 8, 2002 • Commentator and former CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite tells the story behind his initial experience as a TV network anchorman. It happened in 1952 in Chicago at the first-ever nationally televised convention. That was the Republican convention. Later that summer, Cronkite handled the same chore at the Democratic session. Although he'd never attended a political convention, or done national TV, he was a hit.
President Clinton's Impeachment Revisited April 5, 2000 • A year after the impeachment of President Clinton, scholars, authors and members of the media analyzed and disagreed about what happened during that divisive time.
World Iran Hostage Crisis Anniversary November 3, 1999 • In part one of a three part series looking back on the Iran hostage crisis NPR's Ted Clark reports that twenty years ago this week, Iranian students stormed the U.S embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.
Lost & Found Sound Lost & Found Sound October 15, 1999 • Larry Massett reports on the strangest Presidential phone call of all time. Lyndon Johnson talks to astronaut Scott Carpenter while Carpenter is breathing helium-enriched atmosphere. Carpenter was decompressing from 30 days under the sea.
Lost & Found Sound F.D.R.'s Inaugural March 4, 1999 • Today marks the 66th anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address, famous for the words "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." We'll look back.
Lost & Found Sound Center of the World February 19, 1999 • NPR's year-long Friday collaboration with independent producers Jay Allison and the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) -- a series called LOST AND FOUND SOUND. Today we present an item from our QUEST FOR SOUND, in which listeners call 202-408-0300 and tell us about recordings they have - or have stumbled upon. Reverend Dwight Frizzell of Kansas City, Missouri found a recording of the late President Harry S. Truman from 1957 -- five years after Truman left office. The tape is of Truman dedicating a shopping center to be built on the site of his boyhood home. With music Frizzell and a friend added, this remarkable speech winds up being a powerful, and unintended elegy to a passing era.
Lost & Found Sound Eyewitness at Gettysburg February 15, 1999 • Quest for Sound curator Jay Allison has unearthed a unique recording: Eyewitness at Gettysburg Listen · 3:12 3:12 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1045619/952576414" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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From 1998: Lewinsky and Whitewater Plague Clinton Administration August 6, 1998 • Presidential historian Michael Beschloss talks about the effects of the Whitewater investigation and the Monica Lewinsky scandal on the presidency. He says the investigation weakens an already diminished office.
Political Scandals Romancing The Prez February 25, 1998 • Commentator Patt Morrison makes the point that presidential affairs are nothing new. While the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair caused quite a stir, she says there are far more romantic presidential tales to tell.
