GREAT SPEECHES : WAR & DIPLOMACY

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Winston Churchill
Calls for Britain to meet the threat of Germany

Joseph R. McCarthy
On his war against Communism

John Foster Dulles
On the fall of Dien Bien Phu

Paul McCartney
Dispels rumours of his death

Albert Einstein
Calls for an end to atomic proliferation

Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the PLO:
On the first Israel-Palestinian peace agreement
Jean Baillard, French Consul General:
On the Algerian War
James A. Baker, U.S. secretary of state:
Defends U.S. invasion of Panama
George Bush, forty-first U.S. president:
On the Persian Gulf War
Neville Chamberlain, British prime minister:
Declares war against Germany
Winston Churchill, Conservative backbencher:
Calls for Britain to meet the threat of Germany
Charles De Gaulle, Free French general:
Urges America to join the Allies
Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador to the U.N.:
On the Suez Canal Crisis
Abba Eban, Israeli Foreign Minister:
On the Yom Kippur War
Anthony Eden, British Secretary of War:
On the Battle of Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower, thirty-fourth U.S. President:
Announces the signing of the Korean War armistice
John Foster Dulles, U.S. secretary of state:
On the fall of Dien Bien Phu
Adolf Hitler, Leader of Nazi Germany:
On the Sudetenland Crisis
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director:
On the opponents of war preparedness
John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth U.S. President:
Discloses discovery of Soviet missile sites in Cuba
Douglas MacArthur, American General:
Receives the Japanese surrender
Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense:
On the bombing of North Vietnamese cities
Richard M. Nixon, thirty-seventh U.S. President:
Announces Vietnam peace agreement
Pope John Paul II, Head of the Roman Catholic Church:
Addresses the U.N. General Assembly
Gary Francis Powers, U-2 spy plane pilot:
Talks to press after release from Soviet prison
Radio Budapest, presenter:
On the Soviet invasion of Hungary
Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second President:
Returns from the Allied conference at Yalta
Harry S. Truman, thirty-third U.S. President:
Announces his decision to send U.S. forces to Korea