You can use this link to watch a video of Mrs. Bush delivering the Commencement Address at Wellesley College.
This New York Times article was published May 4, 1990, and includes quotes from Wellesley students and the President and Mrs. Bush, as well as information about the petition.
This article from The Atlantic was published March 16, 2012, and analyzes the controversy from a later perspective.
This is an opinion article, originally published May 15, 1990, in the Orlando Sentinel. It is written by an alumna of Wellesley College.
This article was published in the Lawrence Journal-World on April 24, 1990.
The AIDS page of one.org. You'll find information here about the global spread of AIDS, and about efforts to fight the spread of the disease.
Links to the website of the World AIDS Campaign, the AIDS-fighting activist group that sponsors World AIDS Day.
Links to the page of the National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research (OAR). You'll find lots of information about HIV/AIDS, and the OAR.
Read or listen to Mary Fisher's speech here.
Search results for resources relating to LBJ in the National Archives.
Link to the LBJ Presidential Library at UT-Austin.
In 2013, Jesse Jackson wrote a response to LBJ's Howard University Commencement Address, published in the Chicago Sun-Times.
Read a transcript of LBJ's Commencement Address at Howard University, "To Fulfill These Rights," here. You'll find some information about the context of the speech to the right.
Read, listen, or watch JFK's Inaugural Address here.
Links to the JFK Library site.
Introductory text to an exhibit about the Inaugural Address, which provides some background information and context for the speech.
Look at images of the earliest surviving draft of Kennedy's speech, including handwritten notes.
Read or listen to the speech here (JFK Library).
Links to "materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's remarks at the Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration...Materials in this folder include a draft by Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, press copies, and a reading copy of the speech. Of note are several items with handwritten notations by the President."
Historical information from NASA provides background information about the space program to place the Rice University speech in context.
Information about the history of the Kennedy Space Center, which opened just weeks before Kennedy's speech at Rice.
Information about the history of Johnson Space Center, named the Manned Spacecraft Center about a year before Kennedy's speech at Rice.
Chapter 9 of "The Space Shuttle Decision." In the section "Nixon and Technology," the author contrasts Kennedy's and Nixon's rhetoric and speech about the space program.
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Make Your Bed by Read or listen to President Obama's first inaugural address here.
USA Today article with information and observations on religious aspects of Obama's address.
This article from the Tulane University paper quotes Rhetoric professor Jim Mackin extensively to provide analysis of Obama's speech.
Op-ed from New York Times columnist Frank Rich on Obama's speech.
This HuffPo article describes and links to critical perspectives on the speech.
This page from the Obama Presidential Library has a timeline of the entire ceremony, including photos and facts about the ceremony.
Watch the video of President Obama delivering his first inaugural address.
This LA Times newspaper article reports writers' reaction to Obama's Inaugrual Address.
Article in "American Speaker" magazine "discusses lessons to be learned" from President Obama's speech. You may need to sign in with your name and G number in order to view this article.
Watch President Obama's Remarks at the Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil here.
Read President Obama's speech at the Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil here.
Read, listen, and watch Ann Richards' speech here.
This LA Times article interviews Richards a couple of days before she delivered the keynote address.
This newspaper column provides some information on the speech, especially Richards' granddaughter Lily, who was mentioned in the speech.
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