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Age Of Empires 2:The
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Hear the words that changed the world. From Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball,
my vast collection is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the
twentieth century.
(Reminder: To listen to history being made, you
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| Hank Aaron,
baseball player |
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Addresses Congress |
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| "I have been aiming at the flag,
in more ways than one." (Washington, D.C., June 18, 1974) |
| Svetlana
Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin |
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Discusses defection
to the West |
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| "I could not continue the same
life, the same useless life which I had for fourteen years." (March 9, 1967) |
| Yasir Arafat,
chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization |
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On the first
Israel-Palestinian peace agreement |
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| "The difficult decision that we
reached together . . . required great and exceptional courage." (White House,
Washington, D.C., September 13, 1993) |
| Neil A. Armstrong,
U.S. astronaut |
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Walks on the moon |
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| "That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind." (Sea of Tranquility, lunar surface, July 20, 1969) |
| Clement Attlee,
British prime minister |
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Addresses the
United Nations on atomic energy |
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| "It is for the people of the
world, through their representatives, to make their choice between life and death."
(London, England, June 19, 1946) |
| Warren Austin, U.S.
ambassador to the U.N. |
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Reports on the
situation in Korea |
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| "The United Nations finds itself
confronted today with the gravest crisis in its existence." (June 27, 1950) |
| Jean Baillard,
French consul general |
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On the Algerian War |
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| "There is nobody in Algeria to
take what you call independence. It would become a mess." (December 4, 1957) |
| James
A. Baker, U.S. secretary of state |
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Defends U.S.
invasion of Panama |
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| "The United States,
under international law, has an inherent right of self-defense." (Washington, D.C.,
December 20, 1989) |
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| Bernard Baruch,
American financier and diplomat |
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On the Cold War |
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| "Much against our inclination,
we now find ourselves the center of a coalition of peoples struggling to prevent the
return of the dark ages." (June 17, 1953) |
| George Bush,
forty-first U.S. president |
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On the Persian Gulf
War |
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| "The world could wait no
longer." (White House, Washington, D.C., January 16, 1991) |
| Winston Churchill,
Conservative backbencher |
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Calls for Britain
to meet the threat of Germany |
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| "Ready to their hands is this
new lamentable weapon of the air, against which our Navy is no defense, and before which
women and children--the weak and frail--the pacifist and the jingo--the warrior and the
civilian--the frontline trenches and the cottage home--all lie in equal and impartial
peril." (London, England, November 16, 1934) |
| Henry M. Jackson,
U.S. representative of Wisconsin |
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On Truman's
decision to build the H-bomb |
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| "The president's decision
yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the
knife-edge of history." (February 1, 1950) |
| Douglas MacArthur,
American general |
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Receives the
Japanese surrender |
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| "The issues involving divergent
ideals and ideologies have been determined on the battlefields of the world."
(Battleship U.S.S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay, September2, 1945) |
| Edward B. Massey,
NASA project manager |
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On Voyager 1's
exploration of Saturn |
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| "Saturn's rings are very hard to
understand in terms of classical celestial mechanics." (November 12, 1980) |
| Babe Ruth, baseball
player |
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Addresses fans |
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| "The only real game, I think, in
the world, is baseball. (Yankee Stadium, New York City, April 27, 1947) |
| Harry S. Truman,
thirty-third U.S. president |
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Threatens Japan
with further atomic attacks |
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| "We have used it in order to
shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young
Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make
war." Location, Date: (August 9, 1945) |
| Adlai Stevenson,
U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; Valerian Zorin, Soviet ambassador to the U.N. |
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Confrontation over
the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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Stevenson: "Do you,
Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium and intermediate
range missiles and sites in Cuba?"
Zorin: "I am not in an American court room, sir, and therefore I do not wish
to answer a question that is put to me in the fashion in which a prosecutor does."
(United Nations, New York City, October 25, 1962) |
| Winston Churchill,
British prime minister |
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Inaugurates the
Battle of Britain |
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| "Let us therefore brace
ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its
Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest
hour.'" (London, England, June 18, 1940) |
| Henry M. Jackson,
U.S. representative of Wisconsin |
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On Truman's
decision to build the H-bomb |
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| "The president's decision
yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb... has placed us on the
knife-edge of history." (February 1, 1950) |
| John F. Kennedy,
thirty-fifth U.S. president |
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On the first
American to orbit the earth |
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| "This is the new ocean, and I
believe the United States must sail on it and be in a position second to none."
(February 20, 1962) |
| John F. Kennedy,
thirty-fifth U.S. president |
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Announces the
resumption of U.S. nuclear tests |
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| "In the absence of any major
shift in Soviet policies, no American president responsible for the freedom and the safety
of so many people could in good faith make any other decision." (March 2, 1962) |
| Edward B. Massey,
NASA project manager |
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On Voyager 1's
exploration of Saturn |
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| "Saturn's rings are very hard to
understand in terms of classical celestial mechanics." (November 12, 1980) |
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