Kennedy - The Last Mission

No one faced with the need to go before an audience of any size to argue, persuade, uplift, introduce, memorialize, or amuse should be without Lend Me Your Ears. It serves equally as a work of permanent reference use and as a treasure-house for the browser in search of inspiration, instruction, and entertainment. In this anthology, editor and subject matter have met to result in a book that draws from the ages - and that will last for decades as the definitive word on human eloquence.--Jacket.;Political speeches. Demosthenes Attacks His Accuser -- John Winthrop Defines the Mission of Government Officials -- Edmund Burke Makes a Case for Conciliation with America -- Benjamin Franklin Addresses the Federal Convention -- Thomas Jefferson Appeals for Unity at His Inauguration -- Lord Macaulay Presses the Need for Strong Leadership to Gain Popular Support -- William Cobbett Heaps Scorn on Opponents of His Bill to Reduce Child Labor -- Senator Henry Clay Calls for the Great Compromise to Avert Civil War -- Karl Marx Calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- Lincoln, in His First Inaugural, Asserts the Necessity of Majority Rule -- Representative J. Proctor Knott Uses Satire to Sink a Land Grant Bill -- British Conservative Benjamin Disraeli Speaks Up for Tory Principles -- Kalakaua, Last King of Hawaii, Assumes the Throne -- Prime Minister Gladstone Argues for Toleration and the Rights of Freethinkers in the House of Commons -- Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan Delivers His Cross of Gold Speech -- Claude Bowers Conjures the Ghosts of Democrats Past to Keynote a Convention -- President Franklin D. Roosevelts First Inaugural Instills Confidence in a Depression-Racked Nation -- Winston Churchill Warns the West of the Soviet Iron Curtain -- Judge Noah Sweat of Mississippi Shows How to Straddle a Fence with Satiric Flair -- Hubert H. Humphrey Divides the Democratic Party on the Urgent Issue of Civil Rights -- President Harry Truman Whistle-stops the Nation, Blasting the Do-Nothing Congress -- Adlai Stevenson Makes the Model of a Concession Speech -- Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a Secret Speech, Tears Down Stalins Reputation -- President John F. Kennedy, in His Inaugural, Takes Up the Torch for a New Generation -- President Charles de Gaulle Offers Self-determination to the Algerian People -- Barry Goldwater Ignites the Conservative Movement -- President Richard M. Nixon Rallies the Silent Majority to Support the War in Vietnam -- Representative Barbara Jordan Makes the Constitutional Case for the Impeachment of Nixon -- President Gerald Ford Takes Office after Nixons Resignation -- Egypts President Anwar el-Sadat Travels to Jerusalem to Address Israels Knesset -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy Exhorts Fellow Democrats to Hold Fast to Liberalism -- President Ronald Reagan Foresees the Crisis of Communism -- Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Blasts the San Francisco Democrats -- Labours Neil Kinnock Excoriates Mrs. Thatchers Toryism -- Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism -- George Bush Accepts the Republican Nomination -- President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault.;Commencement speeches. President Woodrow Wilson Calls the Midshipmen to Their Duty -- Editor William Allen White Calls the Prewar Generation to Its Duty -- Economist Arthur Burns Shares Three Discoveries with Young Israelis -- Humorist Art Buchwald Speaks to Law Graduates -- Language Maven William Safire Denounces the Telephone as the Subverter of Good English -- Financier Felix G. Rohatyn Examines a Fragile Economy -- Governor Mario Cuomo Speaks over the Heads of the Graduates to the Parents -- Labors Lane Kirkland Rejects the Labels Liberal and Conservative -- Professor Jacob Neusner Defines the Social Contract between Teacher and Student.;Speeches of Social Responsibility. British Statesman William Pitt the Younger Urges Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Lord Bryon Puts Poetic Passion into His Defense of Labors Rights -- Social Reformer Maria Stewart Advocates Education for Black Women -- Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pleads for Womens Rights -- Evangelist Sojourner Truth Speaks for Womens Rights -- Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise with the Evil of Slavery -- Chief Seattle Cautions Americans to Deal Justly with His People -- Susan B. Anthony Argues for Womens Rights -- Governor Huey Long of Louisiana Proposes to End the Depression by Redistributing Wealth -- Labors John L. Lewis Defends His Unions Right to Strike -- FDR Reminds the Daughters of the American Revolution about Their Lineage -- Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort for Having Taken the Easy Way -- Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers Americas First Plan to Control Nuclear Weapons -- Senator Robert Taft Opposes War Crimes Trials as Ex post facto Law -- Governor Kissin Jim Folsom of Alabama Startles the South with a Concern for the Negro -- Senator Margaret Chase Smith Issues a Declaration of Conscience against Senator Joseph McCarthy -- Malcolm X Exhorts Afro-Americans to Confront White Oppression -- Holocaust Witness Elie Wiesel Asks President Reagan to Reconsider a Visit to a German Cemetery -- Astronomer Carl Sagan Contemplates the Potential Self-destruction of the Earth -- Playwright-Dissident Vaclav Havel Assumes the Presidency of Czechoslovakia -- Media speeches. Playwright-Journalist-Diplomat Clare Boothe Luce Criticizes the American Press -- FCCs Newton Minow Excoriates Broadcasters for Failing to Serve the Public Interest -- Historian Daniel J. Boorstin Examines the Coverage of Dissent -- Vice-President Spiro Agnew Castigates the Media -- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times Discusses Business and the Press -- A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times Defines Freedom of the Press -- Television Journalist Ted Koppel Reports on the Newsworthiness of the Ten Commandments -- Novelist Norman Mailer Slams Censorship and Literary Cowardice -- Radio and Television Journalist Daniel Schorr, at Seventy-five, Makes a Few Confessions -- Author Salman Rushdie Cries Out from a Life Trapped inside a Metaphor.;Tributes and eulogies. Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar -- Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette -- Henry Lee Remembers George Washington -- Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams -- Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns -- Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man -- Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll Speaks at His Brothers Grave -- James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield -- Jane Addams Praises George Washington -- Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln -- Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson -- George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein -- Indias Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Delivers the Eulogy for Gandhi -- John F. Kennedy, in Praise of Robert Frost, Celebrates the Arts in America -- Senator Robert F. Kennedy Speaks after the Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Electronic Journalist Eric Sevareid Remembers Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun -- President Richard M. Nixon Defines Politician in Eulogizing Senator Everett Dirksen -- President Jimmy Carter Salutes His Good Friend Hubert H. Humphrey -- Senator Daniel P. Moynihan Spoofs Abstractionist Art at a Dedication Ceremony -- Secretary Jack Kemp, Saluting Winston Churchill, Applies the Munich Analogy to Kuwait -- President Boris Yeltsin of Russia Eulogizes Victims of Communisms Final Power Play -- Debates and argumentation. Cicero Rails against Catiline and His Conspiracies -- Youthful William Pitt the Elder Debates the Merits of Age -- William Pitt the Younger and Charles Fox Disagree on Napoleons Offers of Peace -- Senator Daniel Webster Backs the Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne -- Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson -- Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of Bloody Kansas -- Senator Stephen Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the Popular Sovereignty Decision on Slavery -- John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E.D. Bakers Charge of Treason -- Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression -- Candidates Nixon and Kennedy Meet in the First Televised Presidential Debate -- Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen Clash on Qualifications for the Presidency.;Memorials and patriotic speeches -- War and revolution speeches -- Tributes and eulogies -- Debates and argumentation -- Trials -- Gallows and farewell speeches -- Sermons -- Inspirational speeches -- Lectures and instructive speeches -- Speeches of social responsibility -- Media speeches -- Political speeches -- Commencement speeches.;Memorials and patriotic speeches. Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons -- Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee -- Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness -- Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument -- Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day -- Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg -- Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July -- President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts -- Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists -- Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty -- Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Groups Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel -- Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism -- General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country -- War and revolution speeches. Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights -- Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada -- Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution -- Indian Chief Pledges Help -- General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection -- Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions -- Revolutionist Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish -- Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against Frances Enemies -- Garibaldi Prepares Italys Guerrillas for Battle -- Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate -- Chief Joseph Surrenders -- President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress -- Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship -- Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia -- Hitler Declares Germanys Intentions -- Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task -- Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitlers Troops -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan -- Senator Eugene McCarthy Crystallizes Dissent by Denouncing the War in Vietnam -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands.;Sermons. Jesus of Nazareth Delivers the Sermon on the Mount -- Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds -- John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter -- Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the Citizens of Florence -- John Calvin Preaches on Suffering Persecution -- Calvinist Jonathan Edwards Promises Hellfire and Damnation to the Sinful -- Methodist John Wesley Asserts Free Grace to Deny the Implacability of Fate -- Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics -- Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion -- Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America -- Lincoln, in His Second Inaugural, Seeks to Heal the Spiritual Wounds of War -- Preacher Henry Ward Beecher Speaks of Visions -- Evangelist Billy Sunday Preaches a Revival Sermon -- Bishop Fulton John Sheen Makes a Wartime Plea -- Theologian Karl Barth Preaches Deliverance by Faith -- Rabbi Louis Finkelstein Delivers a Sermon in the White House -- President Ronald Reagan Inveighs against the Sinfulness of Communism -- Billy Graham Preaches about Salvation through Jesus -- Inspirational speeches. Chemist Louis Pasteur Praises the Rise of Scientific Education -- Theodore Roosevelt Blasts Ignoble Ease and Advocates the Strenuous Life -- Mark Twain Reveals Stage Fright -- Branch Rickey Discovers the Quality That Makes a Ballplayer Great -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Acknowledges a Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Sets Forth His Familys Creed -- Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Charges Writers with the Duty to Help Humanity Prevail -- President John F. Kennedy Assures West Germany of Americas Steadfastness -- Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Ennobles the Civil Rights Movement at the Lincoln Memorial -- Senator Everett Dirksen Extols the Marigold -- Lectures and instructive speeches. Philosopher-Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Defines the Duties of the American Scholar -- Edgar Allan Poe Presents His Theory of Beauty and Poetry -- Mark Twain Stuns the Littery World by Spoofing Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes to Their Faces -- William Lyon Phelps Praises the Owning of Books -- Broadcaster John Hilton Talks about Talking -- Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Calls Up the Image of the Floo Floo Bird -- Secretary of State Dean Acheson Explains Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union -- Senator Henry Jackson Analyzes International Terrorism.;Trials. Job Pleads the Record of a Good Life against Gods Inexplicable Punishment -- Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms -- Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason -- Robert Emmet Demands That Posterity Be the Judge of His Irish Patriotism -- Novelist Emile Zola Turns His Libel Defense into an Appeal to Free Falsely Convicted Dreyfus -- Antiwar Dissident Eugene V. Debs Addresses the Court before Sentencing -- Gandhi Defends His Beliefs -- Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment -- Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies His Judges before Sentencing -- Gallows and farewell speeches. Socrates, Condemned to Death, Addresses His Judges -- Charles I and, Later, His Regicide Speak from the Scaffold -- Rebel Richard Rumbold, on the Gallows, Attacks Booted and Spurred Privilege -- Revolutionist Robespierre Delivers His Final Speech -- President George Washington Delivers His Farewell -- John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence -- King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne -- Yankee Great Lou Gehrig Bids Farewell to Baseball -- General Douglas MacArthur Moves Congress with Old Soldiers Never Die -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower Takes His Leave with a Surprising Theme -- President Lyndon B. Johnson Halts the Bombing in Vietnam and Drops His Own Political Bomb -- Speaker of the House James Wright Resigns as Propitiation for Ill Will.