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| Reconstruction and After | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Document | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864 | |
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| The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864 | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Speech, April 11, 1865 | |
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| Thaddeus Stevens, Speech, December 18, 1865 | |
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| Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866 | |
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| An Address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America, August 1865 | |
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| Wade Hampton on Reconstruction, 1866 | |
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| Alexander Stephens on Reconstruction, April 11, 1866 | |
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| Andrew Johnson, Cleveland Speech, September 3, 1866 | |
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| Andrew Johnson, Veto of the First Reconstruction Act, March 2, 1867 | |
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| Charles Summer, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 | |
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| James W. Grimes, Opinion on the Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868 | |
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| Atlanta News, "Meet Brute Force with Brute Force," September 10, 1874 | |
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| Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, March 31, 1876 | |
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| Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873 | |
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| Civil Rights Cases, 1883 | |
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| John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Civil Rights Cases, 1883 | |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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| John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 | |
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| Industrialism and Social Reform | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Document | |
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| Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879 | |
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| Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888 | |
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| Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," June 1889 | |
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| William Graham Sumner, "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over," March 1894 | |
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| Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 | |
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| Samuel Gompers, Letter on Labor in Industrial Society, September 1894 | |
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| Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 1895 | |
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| John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 1895 | |
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| U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895 | |
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| John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in U.S. v. E. C. Knight and Co., 1895 | |
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| Agrarian Protest | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Document | |
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| Resolutions of a Meeting of the Illinois State Farmers' Association, April 1873 | |
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| Munn v. Illinois, 1877 | |
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| Stephen J. Field, Dissenting Opinion in Munn v. Illinois, 1877 | |
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| Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892 | |
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| Grover Cleveland, Message on the Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, August 8, 1893 | |
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| W. H. ("Coin") Harvey, Coin's Financial School, 1894 | |
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| James Laurence Laughlin, Answer to "Coin" Harvey, 1895 | |
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| William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, July 8, 1896 | |
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| William Allen White, "What's the Matter with Kansas?," August 16, 1896 | |
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| Imperialism and War | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Document | |
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| Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1885 | |
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| Henry Cabot Lodge, "Our Blundering Foreign Policy," March 1895 | |
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| William McKinley, War Message to Congress, April 11, 1898 | |
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| Walter Hines Page, "The War with Spain and After," June 1898 | |
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| Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, October 17, 1899 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Appeal for Neutrality, August 19, 1914 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Peace without Victory Address, January 22, 1917 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Speech for Declaration of War against Germany, April 2, 1917 | |
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| George W. Norris, Speech against Declaration of War, April 4, 1917 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Speech on the Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Speech on the Covenant of the League of Nations, February 14, 1919 | |
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| William E. Borah, Speech on the League of Nations, November 19, 1919 | |
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| Progressivism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 1904 | |
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| George Washington Plunkitt, "Honest Graft," 1905 | |
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| Walter Lippmann, "The Themes of Muckraking," 1914 | |
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| Lochner v. New York, 1905 | |
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissenting Opinion in Lochner v. New York, 1905 | |
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| Muller v. Oregon, 1908 | |
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| David Wilcox, Testimony on Railroad Reform, January 21, 1905 | |
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| William P. Hepburn, Speech on Railroad Reform, February 7, 1906 | |
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| Willian Allen White, The Old Order Changeth, 1910 | |
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| Elihu Root, Experiments in Government, 1913 | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt, Acceptance Speech, August 6, 1912 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913 | |
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| Report of the Pujo Committee, February 28, 1913 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1913 | |
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| Prosperity and Depression | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Document | |
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| Hammer v. Dagenhart, 1918 | |
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissenting Opinion in Hammer v. Dagenhart, 1918 | |
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| Abrams v. U.S., 1919 | |
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dissenting Opinion in Abrams v. U.S., 1919 | |
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| Hiram W. Evans, "The Klan's Fight for Americanism," 1926 | |
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| William Allen White, Letter on the Ku Klux Klan, September 17, 1921 | |
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| Progressive Party Platform, 1924 | |
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| Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism Speech, October 22, 1928 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Speech, September 23, 1932 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 | |
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| Herbert Hoover, This Challenge to Liberty, October 30, 1936 | |
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| U.S. v. Butler et al., 1936 | |
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| Harlan Fiske Stone, Dissenting Opinion in U.S. v. Butler et al., 1936 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address on Supreme Court Reform, March 9, 1937 | |
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| Report of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court Reform, June 7, 1937 | |
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| World War II and the Post-War World | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine the Aggressors Speech, October 5, 1937 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Press Conference on Lend-Lease, December 17, 1940 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941 | |
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| Burton K. Wheeler, Speech on Lend-Lease, January 12, 1941 | |
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| Charles A. Lindbergh, Speech on America and the War, April 23, 1941 | |
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| The Atlantic Charter, August 14, 1941 | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941 | |
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| The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947 | |
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| George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, June 5, 1947 | |
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| George F. Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," July 1947 | |
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| Dean Acheson, Speech for the North Atlantic Treaty, March 18, 1949 | |
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| Robert A. Taft, Speech against the North Atlantic Treaty, July 11, 1949 | |
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| Douglas MacArthur, Address to Congress, April 19, 1951 | |
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| Dean Acheson, Testimony on the Military Situation in the Far East, June 1, 1951 | |
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| John Foster Dulles, Testimony on the Policy of Liberation, January 15, 1953 | |
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| Lewis Mumford, Letter on American Foreign Policy, March 28, 1954 | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower, Remarks on Peaceful Co-existence, June 30, 1954 | |
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| Contemporary Challenges | |
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| Civil Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954 | |
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| Declaration of Ninety-six Southern Congressmen, March 12, 1956 | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963 | |
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| Reynolds v. Sims, 1964 | |
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| John Marshall Harlan, Dissenting Opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 1964 | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech on Voting Rights, March 15, 1965 | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965 | |
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| Report of the Commission on Civil Disorders, March 2, 1968 | |
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| Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Memorandum for President Nixon, January 16, 1970 | |
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| Abraham Ribicoff, Senate Speech on De Facto Segregation in Northern Schools, February 18, 1970 | |
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| Richard M. Nixon, State Paper on School Desegregation, March 24, 1970 | |
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| Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Memorandum on the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment, March 26, 1970 | |
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| Arizona State Senator Trudy Camping, Against ERA, 1975 | |
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| Fullilove v. Klutznick, 1980 | |
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| Potter Stewart, Dissenting Opinion in Fullilove v. Klutznick, 1980 | |
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| The Government and the Economy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11, 1962 | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty, March 16, 1964 | |
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| Barry Goldwater, Opening Campaign Speech, September 3, 1964 | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, Economic Report, January 16, 1969 | |
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| Declaration of Environmental Rights, 1970 | |
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| Richard M. Nixon, Address on the Economy, August 15, 1971 | |
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| House Judiciary Committee, Articles of Impeachment, August 20, 1974 | |
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| Gerald R. Ford, Address on the Pardon of Richard M. Nixon, September 8, 1974 | |
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| Jimmy Carter, "Crisis of Confidence" Address, July 15, 1979 | |
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| Debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, Candidates for President, Election of 1980, October 28, 1980: Urban decay; Energy; the role of the Federal Government and Women's Rights | |
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| Foreign Policy 1958-1981 | |
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| Introduction | |
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| State Department, Policy Statement on Non-Recognition of the Chinese Communist Government, August 10, 1958 | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 | |
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| John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 | |
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| John F. Kennedy, Report on Soviet Missiles in Cuba, October 22, 1962 | |
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| John F. Kennedy, Address on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963 | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, American Policy in Vietnam, April 7, 1965 | |
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| J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 | |
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| Richard M. Nixon, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969 | |
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| The United States and the People's Republic of China, The Shanghai Communique, February 27, 1972 | |
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| Richard M. Nixon, Report on the Moscow Summit, June 1, 1972 | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Address on the Camp David Accords, September 18, 1978 | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Report to Congress on the Failed Hostage Rescue Mission to Iran, April 26, 1980 | |
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| Ronald Reagan, Address on Arms Control Negotiations, November 18, 1981 | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Note on Sources | |
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| Index | |