Deconstructing The News

Franklin Roosevelts Radio Address Unvieling 2nd Half of New Deal

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Josh Ray.

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Thanks for visiting Deconstructing The News. Take a look around, get inspired and than get involved. Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City. “We Have Only Just Begun to Fight.” October 31, 1936
(American desire for peace and security at home and abroad—What we have done [...]

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Gettysburg Address (1863)

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Josh Ray.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are [...]

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George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Josh Ray.

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Friends and Fellow Citizens:
The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially [...]

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Original Design of the Seal of the United States

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Josh Ray.

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Just a few hours after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the first committee to design a seal for the United States was appointed, and its design began. After undergoing numerous changes, on June 20, 1782, the seal was officially adopted by the Continental Congress.
The Great Seal [...]

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George Washington’s First Inaugural Speech (1789)

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Josh Ray.

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Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, [...]