A merican presidents have met their end in virtually every way known to human beings, some suddenly in hails of gunfire, some ...

Out of the many challenges the outgoing International Olympic Committee president faced during his dozen years as world sport ...

By R.L. Byrd. On the night of Jan. 11, 1989, near the end of a 21-minute farewell address, President Ronald Reagan asked the television audience, “How stands ‘The City’ on this winter night?” ...

On the night of January, 11, 1989, near the end of a 21-minute farewell address, President Ronald Reagan asked the TV audience, “How stands ‘The City’ on this winter night?”. The City—a reimagined ...

In his speech, he recited a litany ... Full text of Obama's farewell speech. Obama's farewell address looks back on career in activism. Still, ... Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

As Ronald Reagan once said of the Soviets: "We win and they lose." ... At some indeterminate moment between Monday's soaring midday speech, ... In his 1951 farewell address to Congress, ...

In 1989, Ronald Reagan gave his farewell speech in the Oval Office. After the live coverage on ABC, then-White House reporter Sam Donaldson offered a Democratic rebuttal of sorts on the Reagan legacy.

When Ronald Reagan was leaving, after eight years in office, he claimed a place among the more celebrated goodbyes by describing the United States, in his folksy way, as “a shining city upon a ...

On Wednesday the president addressed the nation in prime time to deliver his farewell speech, a tradition that dates back to the first president, George Washington, in 1796, ... Price increases and ...

Ronald Reagan’s farewell repeated his warm “shining city upon a hill” imagery, and optimistically described America as “still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for ...

Power and Significance of Presidential Speeches. ... Clip #8: Ronald Reagan's 1989 Farewell Address (20:51) Clip #9: George H.W. Bush's 1993 Farewell Address (27:36) ...

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