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Galway girl Donating Member (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 03:24 AM
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New list of Greatest American Political Speeches (Obama has been left out for this exercise)
New number one "Hillary Clinton Victory in West Virginia Primary" according to Mr McAuliffe

All others drop one position.

Previous
1 Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have A Dream"
2 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Address
3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address
4 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
5 Barbara Charline Jordan 1976 DNC Keynote Address
6 Richard Milhous Nixon "Checkers"
7 Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet"
8 Ronald Wilson Reagan Shuttle ''Challenger'' Disaster Address
9 John Fitzgerald Kennedy Houston Ministerial Association Speech
10 Lyndon Baines Johnson "We Shall Overcome"
11 Mario Matthew Cuomo 1984 DNC Keynote Address
12 Jesse Louis Jackson 1984 DNC Address
13 Barbara Charline Jordan Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
14 (General) Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address to Congress
15 Martin Luther King, Jr. "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
16 Theodore Roosevelt "The Man with the Muck-rake"
17 Robert Francis Kennedy Remarks on the Assassination of MLK
18 Dwight David Eisenhower Farewell Address
19 Thomas Woodrow Wilson War Message
20 (General) Douglas MacArthur "Duty, Honor, Country"
21 Richard Milhous Nixon "The Great Silent Majority"
22 John Fitzgerald Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner"
23 Clarence Seward Darrow "Mercy for Leopold and Loeb"
24 Russell H. Conwell "Acres of Diamonds"
25 Ronald Wilson Reagan "A Time for Choosing"


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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 03:26 AM
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1. Where is Jim Valvano at the ESPY's? "Dont give up, dont ever give up."
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Galway girl Donating Member (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 03:27 AM
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2. Sorry it's not on McAuliffe's list ...
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Galway girl Donating Member (177 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 03:30 AM
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3. I like your Obama man . Cool
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 04:34 AM
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4. Terry isn't known for his perspective
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Beowulf Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-14-08 04:58 AM
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5. I guess Terry doesn't think much
of the Gettysburg Address.
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