Friday, August 05, 2005

TOP 100 SPEECHES OF THE 20th CENTURY

A great find for the lover of history or rhetoric. I have some reading to do! Reagan and Nixon dominate the list.

1. MLK (I Have a Dream)
2. JFK (Inaugural Address)
6. Nixon (Checkers)
8. Reagan (Challenger Shuttle Disaster)
21. Nixon (The Great Silent Majority)
25. Reagan (A Time for Choosing)
29. Reagan
30. Reagan
35. Hillary Clinton (Women's Rights are Human Rights)
39. Nixon
60. Reagan
73. Lou Gehrig
74. Nixon
92. Bill Clinton (Oklahoma City)

1 comment:

Tom said...

Another great list, E. I'm surprised that Guliani's speech at last year's convention wasn't listed. It was one the finest I have heard in the last few years. and certainly better than anything from Gerry Ferraro. And come to think of it, Bush's speech at Ground Zero was one of the most earnest addresses in the post-Reagan era.

Maybe they stuck to the 20th century.

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