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Farewell Address

George Washington

1796

Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Relations with France, the XYZ Affair

John Adams

1797

Thomas Jefferson to Roger Chew Weightman

Thomas Jefferson

1826

The Olney Corollary

Richard Olney

1895

The Right of the People to Rule

Theodore Roosevelt

1912

My Confession of Faith

Theodore Roosevelt

1912

Election of 1912

The Judiciary and Progress Address at Toledo, Ohio

William Howard Taft

1912

Race and Civil Rights

A More Perfect Union

Barack Obama

2008

Race and Civil Rights

The Rainbow Coalition, Speech to the Democratic National Convention

Jesse Jackson

1984

Race and Civil Rights

Ten Point Program

Bobby Seale & Huey Newton

1967

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