W's post 9/11 speech in the rose garden is another one. About how followers of Islam not being our enemies and we will seek out those that helped, those that hid, those that abided and bring them to justice... was measured and very powerful.
@@stonemansteveiii3135 It was a speech to Congress to go over his proposed budget, with a section devoted to space, so it wouldn't have been his inauguration speech. This is the speech where he said, "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." He later gave another famous speech (after Congress had approved the funding) at the Rice University stadium, where he said the words, "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
JFK was the first Catholic President to be elected. He was a proud Irish-Catholic. The JFK Memorial in Digbeth was paid for by the local Irish community after he was assassinated. Loved the reaction.👍
All these speeches were well prepared, except when RFK spoke about MLK's death - MLK had just been murdered and RFK was announcing it, so there was no preparation - it was really off the cuff. And that makes it impressive to me. That speech was considered important to calm the nation and keep peace in that terrible moment.
That was impressive, indeed. You are talking about a man who can quote Aeschylus off the top of his head, but who also can use that to deliver a simple, heartfelt plea for calm, love, compassion and wisdom. Many of us in that generation often wonder how much potential RFK could have brought to the presidency if he had not been murdered.
@@prussia4428 - Ah, yah... I guess I just don't think of GW Bush's cheerleader megaphone off-the-cuff comments as a "speech". Did you notice how short that clip was - he made a couple good lines - extremely well done and empowering for Bush - but not nearly as eloquent and thoughtful as those other speeches. But well done Bush....
My grandfather was in the national guard in dc for the I have a dream speech. He heard it live and wept. I’m not African American, but I love hearing him recount his awe and the hope he felt that day. And also to portray that not all Americans of that generation were bad people.
Dr. King was perhaps uniquely suited for that speech, being a pastor. He brought not only eloquence, but passion. And it REALLY worked. Within 2 years of that speech, congress passed 3 of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever enacted in the USA.
Same here. Several things have happened since which are (arguably) worse, but nothing has impacted me more than watching the Challenger explode live with my classmates.
It didn't make this list because it was obviously not recorded, but Lincoln's Gettysburg address is probably the biggest speech in US History. As a social studies teacher, it's definitely the most studied in the United States. It starts: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
I'm also a Social Studies teacher and to be fair, one of the reasons this speech is among the most studied is because it's so short. Yes, it's beautifully written, I'm not denying that. And it was delivered on a momentous occasion, that's true as well. But it's also true that American students don't study rhetoric in general, and often have little stamina for long primary documents.
The “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech is worth listening in full. It’s is almost disturbing how prophetic it is. How clearly he understood the risk he was taking on
I remember being in kindergarten when 9/11 happen. Everyone in school was sent home early and I remember walking into the living room and seeing my parents crying in front of the TV. What a terrible day.
I was in 3rd grade and remember that day so incredibly vividly. Even the following days after that tragic Tuesday will always be a burn in my memory. Scary stuff.
Amazing how different responses were across ages when the towers fell. I was entering my Sophomore year of High School and was rudely woken up early (I live on the West coast) and was just annoyed by it. Mind you it wasn't clear it wasn't just an accident at that time. Then I got to school and halfway through first period they stopped everything to wheel in the TV and show the 2nd tower getting hit and shit got real. It immediately gave me a new respect for my Freshman Global Studies teacher who'd spent the last year hammering into us just how important things in the Middle East would be to our generation.
I like how y’all talked about the differences between US speeches and UK speeches. It was really insightful! Side note - the flags at car dealerships date back to when manufacturing was a point of pride for us, so dealers wanted buyers to know the parts were made by Americans, providing American jobs.
The speech by Robert F Kennedy when he was announcing the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and then mentioned the assassination of his brother JFK, was especially difficult to watch when you know that he too would be assassinated not 2 months later. So many great men taken by hatred and violence, seemingly for no reason. It hurts to try and imagine how much better our country would be if great men like MLK, JFK, and RFK had been allowed to finish their good work on this earth, and been rewarded with long, meaningful lives.
Yup that's why they killed them the real people running this country dont want change. They want us fighting eachother and not pay attention to what they're doing.
What makes the W speech so amazing is his defiance of the enemy. He was standing out in the open where security was non existent. Just days after the worst terrorist attack on US soil, he stood there with those rescue workers on that rubble.
He did create the first national parks. But people don’t like TR because he was a great president, they like him because he was a badass. And while he was pretty mediocre as a president, he looks good compared to the people who came immediately before and after him. If we had a really good president between Lincoln and FDR I don’t know who it would be.
I always read up when I hear Martin luther kings speeches especially the one about him being to to mountaintop....he knew what happened to him yet he persevered....he truly was a man of god and i hope I can meet him in heaven one day....may he Rest in Peace
I’ve got to admit: it pisses me off how much he accomplished as president, but he will forever just be known for not being able to keep it in his pants. The man could’ve cured cancer, and all people would remember him for is Monica Lewinsky and all the other previous skanky women from back in his Arkansas days. I’m from Arkansas and grew up all around that Lol. But frankly, I am a fan of Bill (and Hillary) Clinton.
About a week ago I did an in-depth analysis of Obama’s election speech (the last one in the video) and he makes a lot of references/quotes from Lincoln and MLK’s speeches. I’ve also watched a documentary about his speeches and it said that they were in fact two of his favorite orators. I’ve watched this video a lot of times but I never realized that there was a considerable chunk that I didn’t know in the Obama speech and there was a nod to MLK’s Mountaintop speech and I completely geeked out! I’m studying to become a public historian and because I’m so passionate about history sometimes I will just casually pull up speech compilations or just full-length speeches and listen to them while do my assignments.
@@VivaCohen I really enjoyed the documentary and have watched it several times (sorry for the late response). It’s called “The Obama Years: the Power of Words”. It’s a Smithsonian channel documentary but you might be able to find it on some other platforms as well!
That’s true for the bombs dropped in Japan. They were the only nuclear bombs used in war on an enemy target. Technically the first nuclear bomb to ever be used was named Trinity, set off in Nevada to test their new weapon. That left 2 of their initial 3 bombs built to be used against Japan.
Fun fact: Big bird from Sesame Street was offered a chance to be on the challenger space shuttle, NASA contacted the producers of Sesame Street about it, it was supposed to increase public interest in space exploration, but the plan was never approved, they didn’t give a reason but the guy who played big bird said he thinks it was because of the size of the costume. So there is an alternate reality where big bird died in the challenger explosion instead of the school teacher who ended up going.
The RFK speech had real impact. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, riots broke out in cities across the US, as racial tensions continued to boil over. In Indianapolis, where RFK gave his speech, there were no riots. His urgings of solidarity while expressing compassion and understanding clearly made an impact.
They forgot the greatest modern American speech: "In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win today, the fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but is the day when the world declared in one voice, 'We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!' We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" - President Thomas J. Whitmore, 1996
Our national anthem is The Star Spangled Banner and it talks about how the flag still waved after a horrendous attack. An attack that cost many lives to keep it flying. This is why the prevalence of the American Flag. It symbolizes freedom, bravery, and sacrifice, founding principles that were necessary for the United States to form a country.
From a black Christian perspective, MLKs mountaintop speech makes me cry everytime. His reference of climbing the mountaintop and seeing the promised land is metaphor from the book of Exodus where Moses climbs Mount Sinai to recieve God's commands and is allowed to see the promise land but never set foot on it even after wandering the desert for generations. MLK 100% understood his destiny and his fate.
Should also add that Vietnam, while lost, had the desired of effect of showing the Soviets that there would be a cost to their military aggression. They would not try again until 2 decades later in Afghanistan, and that led directly to their demise.
No they didn't, they took the whole wrongheaded Domino theory as a reasonable policy. It's been thoroughly proved wrong. The best dismantling of this cold war reactionary policy is the "Ike and the bomb" episode of Oliver stones untold history of the USA.
@@Christobanistan shame on you. Your ignorance of the Vietnam reactionary strategy makes me weep. You've learned nothing from history. It wasn't communism, it was peasants and workers reformers wanting the things we take for granted ie. Clean Water, housing, Healthcare, ect. this was bad for USA multinational corporations who wanted Vietnam's natural resources for themselves. They set there faces against land reform and nationalism of the countries resources. Ho chi Minh was good enough for uncle Sam during WW2 in the fight against Japanese. as were many so called communists in Greece, Latin America, china, Russia. after WW2 the USA hired nazi intelligence officers and former SS people and used them to defeat socialist uprisings around the world. including Greece where a former Nazi captain who had hunted down brave resistance fighters in Greece. became the first CIA sponsored head of a country.🇸🇩🇨🇺🇻🇪
16:09 what basically happened was that former FBI and CIA broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel. I don't think Nixon was involved in the break- in, but he did try to cover it up.
Do you know WHY they did that? They had credible evidence that they were involved in criminal activity and were trying to get concrete evidence. I always wonder why no one thinks to follow up with questions about why they would do that. I mean, it's a pretty ballsy thing to do unless you think there's something actually there.
Thank you both for making this video, as an American Air Force veteran who watched over my fellow men in Afghanistan, and someone who loves all people, it is very hard to live in this country right now. You remind me of our resolve in difficult times.
It is totally normal for families to have American flags and at least put them out on holidays such as Memorial Day, Independence Day, etc. we have one ourselves.
Thanks for creating this reaction video, you know more about the U.S. than most Americans know about the U.K. of which I am a bit ashamed to admit that I am one of them. Thanks again, I've hit like, subscribed and looking forward to watch other videos of yours.
Look up Charlie Chaplin - Final speech from the great dictator movie. It's a profound message. It's one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard coming from a comedian who made silent films. You will not be disappointed.
The final speech in "The Great Dictator" is so moving & important. That it's finally what took Charlie to say enough & could no longer stay silent anymore. And, by rights is really the first film Chaplin decided to speak more than a word or two. With that said, I'd like to share a great song & vocalist with you all, who uses this speech in one of his tunes. That IMO between his message in lyrics & the sound of his voice is very moving in itself. Unless you don't dig music or appreciate true talent, it should make you stop & think for a minute? Check it out if you're interested? The song is called "Iron Sky" by Paolo Nutini. I hope you all enjoy it my friends? TC °Peace & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul°
@@FishHatcheryGuy have you seen the Hiroshima episode of Oliver stones untold history of the USA? If you're interested in the fall of Japan in WW2 you will like it. It destroys the traditional narrative of WW2 and the US policies towards Japan. and shows how the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unessecasery.
Interesting to note that King George Vl was the first British monarch to visit the US and it occured during Franklin Roosevelt's administration in 1939 . I think they were a bit worried about how they would be received by the American people but they needn't have worried. They received a vary enthusiastic welcome
I'm a native floridian and my dad worked at Kennedy space center and I was in 4th grade and all of us students were in the field watching it and it was truly a sad day seeing that shuttle blow up, that was the first time I saw my dad cry that day
During the Vietnam era I was born during it. And seeing kids in schools that had fathers and then there gone was common place. They was drafting kids right out of high school. Sadly anyone who could not afford to go to college was drafted. So if you was poor, you went, if you were a minority you went. Seeing friends of family over at BBQ's , cook outs and get togethers it was common place to see men with legs or leg missing, arms or what I called "Freddy Kruger skin' was as common as seeing a Robin in a tree. Probably why the son's and daughters of Vietnam vets, who served in the many tours in the sandbox was just accepting it to be, whelp it's just our time to go. Your fathers led good lives afterward and were all great men so it's just something you just accepted as part of life.
Exactly! It's perfectly fine when you're adding commentary with substance but pausing and speaking irrelevant nonsense is not. These 2 didn't do that 👏
Watching 9/11 live on TV along with the presidents speech is what made me decide to join the military as soon as I turned 18. I served my time under Bush and was out right as Obama became prez.
I was in my 9th grade English class watching on TV I remember Turing my head real quick and said to this girl named Erica did u see that and that's when the 2nd plane slammed into the 2nd tower. I'll never forget that
I'm sure this is down in the comments somewhere. However, I could not be bothered to read through nearly 400 comments. "Ich bin Berliner" means I am a person from Berlin. "Ich bin ein Berliner" means I am a doughnut like pastry. That line is a big joke among people who understand German. The sentiment was wonderful, but the delivery was hilarious. (I'm not a native German speaker, I simply study the language. Anyone who wishes to correct me, please feel free to set me straight.)
You guys have to react to Scott Horton's short series on America's recent wars and how they happened. He talks about the stuff they don't tell you and shows the actual reasons for why things happened. His series is called Enough Already. He's the best guy for understanding our wars.
I feel like the Queen (or in some periods of history, the King) are the ones who address the British people rather than the address coming from the Prime Minister. Not sure if that is correct. Just discovered your channel. Thanks for the positivity toward us in the US. Enjoyed your commentary. Best, Timothy
I live in Norway, but the system is the same here. The non-political patriotic role of the US president "belongs" to his function as head of state. In constitutional monarchies the head of state-role is preformed by a non-political figurehead. Only in times of severe crisis with a cross-political unity a prime-minister would take this role. I think the last British prime-minister I know fully taking a role like this is Churchill in his memorable speeches during WWII. In Norway the prime-minister did the same in connection with the attacks and massacre on 22. July 2011.
Challenger Explosion: I was in 1st grade when this happened, and as Reagan said in the speech, almost every single school in the USA had televisions on in classrooms for us to see it. I remember my teacher running across the classroom to turn the TV off. None of us, 5 and 6 year olds, knew what we had just witnessed.
bushes speech really hit those people when he said "I hear you" Hearing that touched my American heart we spent years not being heard by the king of England and now in the new 19th century at a time when we needed it the most and hearing that American man torn down and destraunt because of the terrorist attacks as he stood there in the crowd shouting and hoping someone would hear him and could do something about his pain and then out of the whole crowd who said nothing to the man because they were trying to hear the presidents speech there suddenly shouting back at the man was the president as he steps forward and says "I hear you and the whole world hears you and those fuckers are gonna hear you to" and that made the American people during that time feel so seen and heard and protected and united as one what an epic speech and I don't even care for all of bushes policies but when he's here to the save the day I stand with pride and sulute this man because we can agree to disagree on how America should be handled but at the end of the day we are all here in America for one thing "The protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” and i feel that bush did that in his speech and it was just what we the people needed
Teddy Roosevelt was my favorite president of all time! Total badass!! Was a mixed Marshall artist before it was cool. He was a philosopher as well. He was a man’s man. A blueprint of what American men should strive to become!
I think few too many of the younger generations understand the significance of Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech in Berlin, in front of the Brandenberg Gate. It was 1987, just past the height of the Cold War. Two years later, the Berlin wall fell. Four years after that the Soviet Union itself fell. Reagan destroyed the USSR in 8 years. 8 years.
Birmingham, Alabama was named for Birmingham, England. For its industry, steel mills and mining, Birmingham, AL was called the Pittsburgh of the South.
Agreed on Kennedy’s speech about going to the moon. “We choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard.”
I'm actually ashamed to say that I learned more from your video about my people then I have in my life time. I know I'm going to get a bunch of shit for this but honestly bc of you and your video I'm now educating myself on my own history. I'm not ignorant I know where I come from and all my country has done for us. But now bc of you I want to know more. Thank you for reminding me where I come from and how grateful I am to be American.
Oh the 2000 election was actually very much in the air, thanks to Florida (I'm not even joking 😂). There's some good movies on it, and I'm sure there's a youtube video explaining it, but Al Gore speech mainly had to do with the fact that it had been a month after the election and we still didn't know who won.... it's worth looking into though!
The Florida count in the 2000 election was disputed, to the point where the issues got into the courts and then went all the way up, through appeals, etc. to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided to end the recounts, appeals, etc., giving a narrow (less than 1,000 votes) win to Bush. Gore had won the popular vote, but Florida decided the electoral vote against him. What you saw in this speech was Gore conceding -- not because he agreed with the court's decision to stop the recounts, but in order to head off any further political division that could end up in a constitutional crisis. In other words, Gore saw that the good of the country was more important than his own ambitions, so he agreed to stop a contentious process that had already gone on too long.
I'd have to say the closest parallel I've ever heard of British politicians using American style addresses was with Winston Churchill in his famous "We will never surrender" speech, though even then he sounds more like he's done with life given how little energy he puts into it.
"Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom!" Once upon a time at Stirling Bridge
It's pretty cool to see you knowledgeable enough about some topics to explain to your girl why things happened the way they did i.e. why the USA fought in Vietnam 11:00
I would love to hear Churchill's speech about never giving up and fighting and also the speech from the man about Normandy and Britain's heroic recovery of soldiers.
I'm laughing so hard, and I am 1:09 in. It's because I have heard family members saying similar things, such as where is the video of the Father of Our Country, so I can listen to him. You have a reason to be unclear. You are overseas. This is the first time I have found that to be amusing. Thanks for that. Don't know if I will watch the whole video. But I will give a thumbs up.
as an American I really wish they had that one line from the most epic presidential speech in the US ... and that one line is - "Bill Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
Man, watching the concession speech and the 9/11 speech back-to-back like that, it really underlines that the attacks happened pretty soon after Bush was elected. I bet Gore was pretty glad he wasn't the one in the White House at that time, and I'm pretty sure there were some times when Bush wished the courts had put Gore in the presidency instead in the days after 9/11. Talk about a hard time to be President.
This is the first of your videos I've watched. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you Regarding Cuba and Communism. I was born in Florida. I was a child during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later in grade school we had air raid drills. We had to hide under our desks. As an adult the frutility of this is glaring.
The Truman speech about the H-bomb was met with great happiness, especially by American soldiers in the Pacific theatre of operations who otherwise would have had to participate in a land invasion of Japan which would have resulted in tens of thousands of Amercian casualties and many more Japanese military and civilian deaths. In addition, the people then were quite aware of the brutality of Japanese occupations, the Bataan death march, and the pre-war rape of Nanking by the Japanese and consequently had little or no sympathy for them with the news of the bomb. To this day, Japanese school children are not taught the full truth of what their country did.
Epic, I recommend this. And also I recommend on your own time that you should watch some of jfk’s speeches. His Inauguration speech, “we will go to the moon” speech, just to name a few. Without a doubt, he was our most charismatic leader by far (and youngest), I wasn’t even alive anywhere near when he was and It makes me so mad he was assassinated, I genuinely believe he could of been one of our all time great presidents if he had more time to serve and wasn’t killed, like up there with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but sadly we’ll never know
The Atomic Bomb story is pretty crazy. We told Japan we had a bomb that could destroy a city and to surrender or we would use it. They didn't believe such a thing was possible. WE dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima. We told them we had another bomb just like that and to surrender our we would use it. They refused because they believed that there was no way possible for us to create two such bombs. We dropped the second on Nagasaki. We then told them that we had a third, and to surrender or we would drop it on Tokyo. They STILL refused. The War Council didn't believe we could create more than two bombs like that. The Emperor dismissed his War Council's advice to keep fighting and agreed to surrender instead of risking the loss of Tokyo.
Watergate was an office building that housed the Democrate National Committee Office. A group a men brole in and tried to "bug" the phones for the Republican Party so they would know the Democrate's stragies and stuff like that. They were caught in the act and the White House staff was in on it and Nixon got caught trying to cover it up. You really should watch "All the President's Men" great movie.
The bombs used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", because one bomb was an egg-shaped implosion-type, and the other was a thinner gun-type. Before that, the first atomic detonation was codenamed "Trinity", and was informally called "the Gadget".
I don’t think America actually knew the immense danger of fallout and the cancers that followed the Atomic bombs. That said, Japan was forewarned & described the amt of damage possible by the weapon if they did not withdraw from the war, they refused & it was dropped. Yet the Japanese continued after the bomb dropped and was warned that Nagasaki would be next. Japan continued and that is why they also bombed Nagasaki at this time they surrendered. God bless all those innocent people who died then and suffered down the road with cancers. War is ugly, I pray for World Peace.
I am amazed they didn't have any from what is probably the greatest political speech in American history, Ronald Reagan's 1960s a time for choosing. The speech by Eisenhower where he talked about the military-industrial complex was let's just say a speech he wasn't supposed to give. That turned a lot of heads (and pissed a lot of certain people off) because of the wake-up call it gave the people of the US.
Watched about halfway through and I can pretty much guarantee there will be now or ever a Trump speech on greatest speeches video. If there is I will be in shock.
A few clarification: North Korea was communist 15 years earlier than Johnson’s speech about Vietnam. The war was to stop its spread throughout Southeast Asia. Subsequently, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos went communist. Kennedy’s speech was in West Berlin; not West Germany per se. The USSR had already enslaved Eastern Europe, tried to starve the people of West Berlin (saved by a US airlift) and killed millions of its own citizens. (Stalin was a real pip.) Washington was not around for the US Civil War; he led the army in the US Revolutionary War against England. In either case, it was at least 60 or more years before recording equipment was invented. The US economy was even better during the Trump Administration. Black and Latino unemployment reached record lows. There were 2 George Bush’s. Father and son. Nixon/Watergate: Nixon’s campaign committee broke into the office of the the Democratic National Committee. The break in was not authorized by Nixon (no one claimed that) but he was aware of the cover-up. He was complicit in obstruction of justice and would have been removed from office ultimately. So he resigned. (The irony is he won the election in one of the most lopsided victories ever. The war which Johnson had waged made him and the democrat party so unpopular that he didn’t run for re-election and the VP had no shot at beating Nixon).
As a mother of three and an American some of those speeches are very INSPIRATIONAL like JFK’s, Martin Luther King, because you felt like it came from the heart! Then there were ones that sound great, but they never backed it up with their actions, such as LBJ(Republican), Obama (Democrat). Unfortunately we as Americans have had politicians make promises every 2, 4, or 6 years, get elected and then do nothing they promised! Just a lot of empty promises and a lot of language that caused divisions. Recently and you all touched on it, people around the world as well as our News Media and Democrats looked at the possibility of Donald Trump becoming President as a major joke! I am a veteran and a conservative, meaning that we tend to be very patriotic, we believe in our constitution, we believe in law and order, smaller, less intrusive government, our right to free speech, right as American Citizens ( not illegal immigrants ) to vote, our right to bear arms ( as law abiding citizens, not criminals ) and the belief that our government’s main purpose is to protect its citizens! We and I include myself, voted for Donald Trump, because he was not a politician, he was a businessman and one who had proven he could get things done! We knew he was not the eloquent orator, smooth fork talking politician and we knew he would be a disrupter! The Democrats and mainstream media hated him, how dare an outsider think he could come into their world and out think, out work and out maneuver them! So before he even took the oath of office, the media and the Democrats started the lies! First the Russia collusion lie, which turned out the only person or persons colluding with Russia was Hilary Clinton and the Democrats (proven with an investigation that cost the American taxpayers over 25 million dollars and almost three years of President Trump’s Presidency). The Ukrainian phone call, for which the Democrats impeached him in the House of Representatives, a phone call that over 20 persons were listening in on and only one had a problem with it and that person had been put in that position by President Obama shortly before he left office (coincidence). The so called January 6th insurrection in which the media led the American people to believe only President Trump backers were going to the capital to overthrow the government and take Nancy Pelosi prisoner! First off the media loops two or three short clips over and over of some definite violent aggression, what they don’t show, is the Capital Police opening the metal barricades and waving people in, them, opening doors to the Capital and the Senate floor and welcoming peaceful orderly people inside, they don’t talk about the young female veteran who was unarmed that was shot and killed as she climbed in through a window, how neither of the two Capital Police who died, died due to any violence toward them, but of natural causes, as were I believe three other people who were in the crowds, that died of medical emergencies. Yet the most of the media and Democrats continue to lie about this! There are many, many lies, but very little truths told about President Trump, how his economic policies brought about the lowest unemployment rates ever in every demographic ( whites, Asians, blacks, women, Hispanics etc…), bringing millions of manufacturing jobs back to America, greatest economic growth, made permanent funding for black universities, secured our southern border, thus severely lowering drugs coming in from the drug cartels, China and others, severely reduced human trafficking across the southern border, lowered corporate taxes, which in turn caused those corporations to raise salaries, hire more people and offer better benefits, lowered individual federal income taxes (which put more money in Americans pockets), the three Middle East treaties for which he was nominated for three Nobel Peace Prizes(which we all knew he would never win, because he is an outsider), his rules of engagement in regards to Isis, basically wiping them out, his America first stance, which every other country or kingdom has where they look out for what is best for their country first, but it did not mean he was not wanting to help other countries, his new trade deals that were fair for both, not just the other countries! Most importantly his handling of COVID-19 here in the US, setting up Warp Speed which produced vaccines in a record 10 months and millions of doses had been given prior to his leaving office, even though our current President claims there was no vaccine when he took office (to bad everyone but he knows he had had two doses before he was ever sworn into office)!I could go on and on, but I, I’ll bet most have not even heard of a lot of these accomplishments and while under daily, hourly attacks by the Democrats, Never Trumper Republicans and the media all who hated him again because he was an outsider and because of all he accomplished, made them look bad for all they promised, but never accomplished! They, the Democrats and left leaning media continue to lie about COVID-19and where it originated from, we know now, China knew as early as November of 2019, when three people who worked in the famous Wuhan Lab fell ill and were hospitalized with COVID like symptoms, we know they were experimenting with bats and bat viruses, we know that they shut down all travel from Wuhan to other parts of China, but allowed people leaving Wuhan to travel out of China, Internationally! So they are responsible for millions of deaths around the world, when it all could have been contained inside China! I know President Trump offered to send in help and was told it was contained and wasn’t transmitted from human to human, when China knew that was a lie!
i remember the Shuttle explosion, We had a assembly the WHOLE school was watching, and half way it started to blow up and the teachers started scream and cry, one of the male teachers ran to turn off the feed, the older kids new wha was happing that they all died, we they older kids told us younger kids they died, we started to ask question for the next hour and then or parents came to pick us up,
I'm surprised they didn't include Pres. Kennedy's speech about going to the Moon. That was a big one.
W's post 9/11 speech in the rose garden is another one. About how followers of Islam not being our enemies and we will seek out those that helped, those that hid, those that abided and bring them to justice... was measured and very powerful.
I think that was part of his Inauguration Speech, which they did show, just other parts.
@@stonemansteveiii3135 It was a speech to Congress to go over his proposed budget, with a section devoted to space, so it wouldn't have been his inauguration speech. This is the speech where he said, "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
He later gave another famous speech (after Congress had approved the funding) at the Rice University stadium, where he said the words, "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
@@Trifler500 Yes, I've heard that speech, I just always thought it was part of the Inauguration speech. My bad.
@@stonemansteveiii3135 No worries
JFK was the first Catholic President to be elected. He was a proud Irish-Catholic. The JFK Memorial in Digbeth was paid for by the local Irish community after he was assassinated. Loved the reaction.👍
JFK had English ancestors on his mothers side, early settlers to Jamestown.
@Miles Doyle stop
Also the first potus to be born in the 20th century
Fact JFK didn't even live a year in office
@@Skibidibugs You do know that jfk had been president for 1036 days which is 2.838 years......
All these speeches were well prepared, except when RFK spoke about MLK's death - MLK had just been murdered and RFK was announcing it, so there was no preparation - it was really off the cuff. And that makes it impressive to me. That speech was considered important to calm the nation and keep peace in that terrible moment.
That was impressive, indeed. You are talking about a man who can quote Aeschylus off the top of his head, but who also can use that to deliver a simple, heartfelt plea for calm, love, compassion and wisdom. Many of us in that generation often wonder how much potential RFK could have brought to the presidency if he had not been murdered.
@@johnalden5821 - So much potential - such a loss.
Unless you’re one of those stupid theorists. The 9/11 speech was apparently thought of on spot.
@@prussia4428 - Ah, yah... I guess I just don't think of GW Bush's cheerleader megaphone off-the-cuff comments as a "speech". Did you notice how short that clip was - he made a couple good lines - extremely well done and empowering for Bush - but not nearly as eloquent and thoughtful as those other speeches. But well done Bush....
My grandfather was in the national guard in dc for the I have a dream speech. He heard it live and wept. I’m not African American, but I love hearing him recount his awe and the hope he felt that day. And also to portray that not all Americans of that generation were bad people.
Every Martin Luther King Jr day my mom reads us the I Have a Dream speech.
Dr. King was perhaps uniquely suited for that speech, being a pastor. He brought not only eloquence, but passion. And it REALLY worked. Within 2 years of that speech, congress passed 3 of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever enacted in the USA.
@@ShyAnn291 Have you heard the Queen song One Vision based on that speech? Listen to the live version.
@@dana_brooke_27 ok I will, thanks
@@ShyAnn291 If you can't understand him there's the lyrics version too
I saw the Challenger explosion in school. I remember the President speaking directly to school children like me. I still tear up today hearing it.
Same here. Several things have happened since which are (arguably) worse, but nothing has impacted me more than watching the Challenger explode live with my classmates.
I do as well, i was only 12 and it took me a moment to unstand what was actually going on. I also watched the wall come down on tv with tom b.
It didn't make this list because it was obviously not recorded, but Lincoln's Gettysburg address is probably the biggest speech in US History. As a social studies teacher, it's definitely the most studied in the United States.
It starts:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
how old are you dude
Lincoln wasn't around during this time period.
@@solace6700 So u think youre cool for looking down on ppl who admire history? When we forget history it repeats itself. It always has. Grow up
@@user-wr9ej6xe4j no. You have assumed a whole argument in your head.
I'm also a Social Studies teacher and to be fair, one of the reasons this speech is among the most studied is because it's so short. Yes, it's beautifully written, I'm not denying that. And it was delivered on a momentous occasion, that's true as well. But it's also true that American students don't study rhetoric in general, and often have little stamina for long primary documents.
The “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech is worth listening in full. It’s is almost disturbing how prophetic it is. How clearly he understood the risk he was taking on
It gives me chills hearing it. It’s as if he had a feeling of what was coming the next night.
That speech was a day or two before his assassination.
He was clearly threatened or made aware that a plot is very possible
@@stephenkammerling9479 tell that to all those who receive propehtic dreams that happen of or not according to their own volition
I remember being in kindergarten when 9/11 happen. Everyone in school was sent home early and I remember walking into the living room and seeing my parents crying in front of the TV. What a terrible day.
I was in 3rd grade and remember that day so incredibly vividly. Even the following days after that tragic Tuesday will always be a burn in my memory. Scary stuff.
Third grade for me. We didn’t get sent home, we were asked to draw it on the whiteboard. Like wtf
Amazing how different responses were across ages when the towers fell. I was entering my Sophomore year of High School and was rudely woken up early (I live on the West coast) and was just annoyed by it. Mind you it wasn't clear it wasn't just an accident at that time. Then I got to school and halfway through first period they stopped everything to wheel in the TV and show the 2nd tower getting hit and shit got real. It immediately gave me a new respect for my Freshman Global Studies teacher who'd spent the last year hammering into us just how important things in the Middle East would be to our generation.
I like how y’all talked about the differences between US speeches and UK speeches. It was really insightful!
Side note - the flags at car dealerships date back to when manufacturing was a point of pride for us, so dealers wanted buyers to know the parts were made by Americans, providing American jobs.
The speech by Robert F Kennedy when he was announcing the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and then mentioned the assassination of his brother JFK, was especially difficult to watch when you know that he too would be assassinated not 2 months later. So many great men taken by hatred and violence, seemingly for no reason. It hurts to try and imagine how much better our country would be if great men like MLK, JFK, and RFK had been allowed to finish their good work on this earth, and been rewarded with long, meaningful lives.
Yup that's why they killed them the real people running this country dont want change. They want us fighting eachother and not pay attention to what they're doing.
What makes the W speech so amazing is his defiance of the enemy. He was standing out in the open where security was non existent. Just days after the worst terrorist attack on US soil, he stood there with those rescue workers on that rubble.
She got you when she asked “What do you define recorded?”😂
Ngl I was stumped 😂😂
What an amazing save lmfao
Recorded on text is still recorded.
to which I would have said, When was it recorded? His point of "That was the revolution" still held
Thank God shes pretty.
Americas manliest President the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt.
100%
The president Putin pretends to be.
He was a turd
Unfortunately people don’t realize he wasn’t a good President
He did create the first national parks. But people don’t like TR because he was a great president, they like him because he was a badass. And while he was pretty mediocre as a president, he looks good compared to the people who came immediately before and after him. If we had a really good president between Lincoln and FDR I don’t know who it would be.
I always read up when I hear Martin luther kings speeches especially the one about him being to to mountaintop....he knew what happened to him yet he persevered....he truly was a man of god and i hope I can meet him in heaven one day....may he Rest in Peace
When I saw Bill Clinton come on, all I was waiting for was "I. Did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky" lol
Lol. Or his. “It depends on the defintion of “is” is” lol. That’s my favorite clinton moment
Sad I didn’t come up
@@maciedixon3983 ... or that now famous quote 1:17 "Define recorded hon"
Yeah, super weird that Clinton's "the economy's good!" speech was in there at all. Just not a great or significant speech in any way.
I’ve got to admit: it pisses me off how much he accomplished as president, but he will forever just be known for not being able to keep it in his pants. The man could’ve cured cancer, and all people would remember him for is Monica Lewinsky and all the other previous skanky women from back in his Arkansas days. I’m from Arkansas and grew up all around that Lol. But frankly, I am a fan of Bill (and Hillary) Clinton.
About a week ago I did an in-depth analysis of Obama’s election speech (the last one in the video) and he makes a lot of references/quotes from Lincoln and MLK’s speeches. I’ve also watched a documentary about his speeches and it said that they were in fact two of his favorite orators. I’ve watched this video a lot of times but I never realized that there was a considerable chunk that I didn’t know in the Obama speech and there was a nod to MLK’s Mountaintop speech and I completely geeked out! I’m studying to become a public historian and because I’m so passionate about history sometimes I will just casually pull up speech compilations or just full-length speeches and listen to them while do my assignments.
There's a documentary about his speeches? What is it called? I want to watch it! His speeches still give me chills
@@VivaCohen They're designed to do that. And you're reacting exactly the way they expect you to.
@@VivaCohen I really enjoyed the documentary and have watched it several times (sorry for the late response). It’s called “The Obama Years: the Power of Words”. It’s a Smithsonian channel documentary but you might be able to find it on some other platforms as well!
They where named little boy and fat man
That’s true for the bombs dropped in Japan. They were the only nuclear bombs used in war on an enemy target. Technically the first nuclear bomb to ever be used was named Trinity, set off in Nevada to test their new weapon. That left 2 of their initial 3 bombs built to be used against Japan.
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you mean gadget !!!!!
The MLK one always makes me tear up.
It literally gives me the chills. I watched it live on TV when I was 15.
Fun fact: Big bird from Sesame Street was offered a chance to be on the challenger space shuttle, NASA contacted the producers of Sesame Street about it, it was supposed to increase public interest in space exploration, but the plan was never approved, they didn’t give a reason but the guy who played big bird said he thinks it was because of the size of the costume. So there is an alternate reality where big bird died in the challenger explosion instead of the school teacher who ended up going.
Dude if that's true, Reagan would have had to given a very different speech. 😐😃😐😄😐😆
The RFK speech had real impact. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, riots broke out in cities across the US, as racial tensions continued to boil over. In Indianapolis, where RFK gave his speech, there were no riots. His urgings of solidarity while expressing compassion and understanding clearly made an impact.
They forgot the greatest modern American speech:
"In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist. And should we win today, the fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but is the day when the world declared in one voice, 'We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!' We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"
- President Thomas J. Whitmore, 1996
Top 5 best speeches of all time
Hollywood movie speeches are great. I love the movie “Independence Day.”
That speech basically breaks me down to tears everytime I hear it. Lol
Loved that movie, Independence Day.
You absolutely magnificent troll.
2:50 - I think that back then, we didn't yet understand the implications of the radiation. People just saw it as an incredibly powerful bomb.
Our national anthem is The Star Spangled Banner and it talks about how the flag still waved after a horrendous attack. An attack that cost many lives to keep it flying. This is why the prevalence of the American Flag. It symbolizes freedom, bravery, and sacrifice, founding principles that were necessary for the United States to form a country.
Do a movie reaction to "Forrest Gump"..... You'll see a ton of American history throughout this movie
From a black Christian perspective, MLKs mountaintop speech makes me cry everytime. His reference of climbing the mountaintop and seeing the promised land is metaphor from the book of Exodus where Moses climbs Mount Sinai to recieve God's commands and is allowed to see the promise land but never set foot on it even after wandering the desert for generations. MLK 100% understood his destiny and his fate.
Yup, that's why alot of people say he may have known of his assassination. There's alot of conspiracies of the F.B.I getting involved.
I should point out that Korea was 10 years before Vietnam, the fear of communism spreading, you mostly described correctly though
Ah my bad got mixed up
The TV show MASH took place during the Korean War, if you've seen it.
Should also add that Vietnam, while lost, had the desired of effect of showing the Soviets that there would be a cost to their military aggression. They would not try again until 2 decades later in Afghanistan, and that led directly to their demise.
No they didn't, they took the whole wrongheaded Domino theory as a reasonable policy. It's been thoroughly proved wrong. The best dismantling of this cold war reactionary policy is the "Ike and the bomb" episode of Oliver stones untold history of the USA.
@@Christobanistan shame on you. Your ignorance of the Vietnam reactionary strategy makes me weep. You've learned nothing from history. It wasn't communism, it was peasants and workers reformers wanting the things we take for granted ie. Clean Water, housing, Healthcare, ect. this was bad for USA multinational corporations who wanted Vietnam's natural resources for themselves. They set there faces against land reform and nationalism of the countries resources. Ho chi Minh was good enough for uncle Sam during WW2 in the fight against Japanese. as were many so called communists in Greece, Latin America, china, Russia. after WW2 the USA hired nazi intelligence officers and former SS people and used them to defeat socialist uprisings around the world. including Greece where a former Nazi captain who had hunted down brave resistance fighters in Greece. became the first CIA sponsored head of a country.🇸🇩🇨🇺🇻🇪
16:09 what basically happened was that former FBI and CIA broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel. I don't think Nixon was involved in the break- in, but he did try to cover it up.
Do you know WHY they did that? They had credible evidence that they were involved in criminal activity and were trying to get concrete evidence. I always wonder why no one thinks to follow up with questions about why they would do that. I mean, it's a pretty ballsy thing to do unless you think there's something actually there.
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall. Memories must remain that mistakes are not remade.
Thank you both for making this video, as an American Air Force veteran who watched over my fellow men in Afghanistan, and someone who loves all people, it is very hard to live in this country right now. You remind me of our resolve in difficult times.
I'm from eastern Europe and for me ,,Mr Gorbaciov, open this gate " is very impressive.
Loved this video! Some really powerful stuff. Keep up the great work you two!
It is totally normal for families to have American flags and at least put them out on holidays such as Memorial Day, Independence Day, etc. we have one ourselves.
Thanks for creating this reaction video, you know more about the U.S. than most Americans know about the U.K. of which I am a bit ashamed to admit that I am one of them. Thanks again, I've hit like, subscribed and looking forward to watch other videos of yours.
Look up Charlie Chaplin - Final speech from the great dictator movie. It's a profound message. It's one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard coming from a comedian who made silent films. You will not be disappointed.
I saw it and teared up. It was beautiful.❤
That's the greatest speech on the planet I swear !
The final speech in "The Great Dictator" is so moving & important. That it's finally what took Charlie to say enough & could no longer stay silent anymore. And, by rights is really the first film Chaplin decided to speak more than a word or two. With that said, I'd like to share a great song & vocalist with you all, who uses this speech in one of his tunes. That IMO between his message in lyrics & the sound of his voice is very moving in itself. Unless you don't dig music or appreciate true talent, it should make you stop & think for a minute? Check it out if you're interested? The song is called "Iron Sky" by Paolo Nutini. I hope you all enjoy it my friends? TC °Peace & Rock n' Roll 4 Your Soul°
First time watching any of your videos. I am super impressed with your knowledge of United States history. Subscribing.
I’m looking forward to y’all doing oversimplified WW2 and prohibition.
On its way brother, most likely tomorrow 💪🏼
@@JamesCornwall95 y’all should also consider doing a reaction at some point to “The Death of the Japanese Navy” www.dailymotion.com/video/xm50pb
@@FishHatcheryGuy did they just thank you for calling them simple? 😂
@@FishHatcheryGuy have you seen the Hiroshima episode of Oliver stones untold history of the USA? If you're interested in the fall of Japan in WW2 you will like it. It destroys the traditional narrative of WW2 and the US policies towards Japan. and shows how the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unessecasery.
Interesting to note that King George Vl was the first British monarch to visit the US and it occured during Franklin Roosevelt's administration in 1939 .
I think they were a bit worried about how they would be received by the American people but they needn't have worried. They received a vary enthusiastic welcome
I'm a native floridian and my dad worked at Kennedy space center and I was in 4th grade and all of us students were in the field watching it and it was truly a sad day seeing that shuttle blow up, that was the first time I saw my dad cry that day
During the Vietnam era I was born during it. And seeing kids in schools that had fathers and then there gone was common place. They was drafting kids right out of high school. Sadly anyone who could not afford to go to college was drafted. So if you was poor, you went, if you were a minority you went. Seeing friends of family over at BBQ's , cook outs and get togethers it was common place to see men with legs or leg missing, arms or what I called "Freddy Kruger skin' was as common as seeing a Robin in a tree. Probably why the son's and daughters of Vietnam vets, who served in the many tours in the sandbox was just accepting it to be, whelp it's just our time to go. Your fathers led good lives afterward and were all great men so it's just something you just accepted as part of life.
Don't stop pausing! what y'all add to the vid is way better than the vid alone.
Exactly! It's perfectly fine when you're adding commentary with substance but pausing and speaking irrelevant nonsense is not. These 2 didn't do that 👏
Watching 9/11 live on TV along with the presidents speech is what made me decide to join the military as soon as I turned 18. I served my time under Bush and was out right as Obama became prez.
I was in my 9th grade English class watching on TV I remember Turing my head real quick and said to this girl named Erica did u see that and that's when the 2nd plane slammed into the 2nd tower. I'll never forget that
I like that you do the value-added stuff at the end. I agree about the other react videos.
I'm sure this is down in the comments somewhere. However, I could not be bothered to read through nearly 400 comments. "Ich bin Berliner" means I am a person from Berlin. "Ich bin ein Berliner" means I am a doughnut like pastry. That line is a big joke among people who understand German. The sentiment was wonderful, but the delivery was hilarious.
(I'm not a native German speaker, I simply study the language. Anyone who wishes to correct me, please feel free to set me straight.)
You guys have to react to Scott Horton's short series on America's recent wars and how they happened. He talks about the stuff they don't tell you and shows the actual reasons for why things happened. His series is called Enough Already. He's the best guy for understanding our wars.
Nixon would've never got caught had those flashlights not kept Forrest awake.
I feel like the Queen (or in some periods of history, the King) are the ones who address the British people rather than the address coming from the Prime Minister. Not sure if that is correct. Just discovered your channel. Thanks for the positivity toward us in the US. Enjoyed your commentary. Best, Timothy
I live in Norway, but the system is the same here. The non-political patriotic role of the US president "belongs" to his function as head of state. In constitutional monarchies the head of state-role is preformed by a non-political figurehead. Only in times of severe crisis with a cross-political unity a prime-minister would take this role. I think the last British prime-minister I know fully taking a role like this is Churchill in his memorable speeches during WWII. In Norway the prime-minister did the same in connection with the attacks and massacre on 22. July 2011.
As an American it makes me super patriotic to know that there's a George Washington statue in London
Challenger Explosion: I was in 1st grade when this happened, and as Reagan said in the speech, almost every single school in the USA had televisions on in classrooms for us to see it. I remember my teacher running across the classroom to turn the TV off. None of us, 5 and 6 year olds, knew what we had just witnessed.
Yoooo! Nice reaction, thanks for reacting to it
bushes speech really hit those people when he said "I hear you" Hearing that touched my American heart we spent years not being heard by the king of England and now in the new 19th century at a time when we needed it the most and hearing that American man torn down and destraunt because of the terrorist attacks as he stood there in the crowd shouting and hoping someone would hear him and could do something about his pain and then out of the whole crowd who said nothing to the man because they were trying to hear the presidents speech there suddenly shouting back at the man was the president as he steps forward and says "I hear you and the whole world hears you and those fuckers are gonna hear you to" and that made the American people during that time feel so seen and heard and protected and united as one what an epic speech and I don't even care for all of bushes policies but when he's here to the save the day I stand with pride and sulute this man because we can agree to disagree on how America should be handled but at the end of the day we are all here in America for one thing "The protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” and i feel that bush did that in his speech and it was just what we the people needed
I wish they included Trumps speech at the 75th anniversary of D-day. I thought it was a grewt speech
Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech was Aug-28, 1963... my mother (in Canada) was in labour... I was born at 8 a.m. the next day.
We didn't heed Eisenhower's warning on the military-industrial complex. It's 100x worse!
Young man you are quite informed on American history better than a lot of Americans,,, props!!!
Teddy Roosevelt was my favorite president of all time! Total badass!! Was a mixed Marshall artist before it was cool. He was a philosopher as well. He was a man’s man. A blueprint of what American men should strive to become!
Thank you for making this video I am an American you have featured all my heroes in this video I am literally sitting here crying right now
You should do the Star Spangled Banner as you've never heard it - gives you an idea why the flag is so revered
Agreed. It’s a great video.
That video is full of lies and misrepresentations and is not accurate. It is white Christian propaganda.
@@davidrichards6509 Sorry that it doesn't fit YOUR narrative of history
@@jimmy_wang_ - looks like someone (David Richards) needs to read some history books before spouting off and making a fool of themself 🤣
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exactly. No one cares about flag worshiping hoopla
I think few too many of the younger generations understand the significance of Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech in Berlin, in front of the Brandenberg Gate. It was 1987, just past the height of the Cold War. Two years later, the Berlin wall fell. Four years after that the Soviet Union itself fell. Reagan destroyed the USSR in 8 years. 8 years.
Birmingham, Alabama was named for Birmingham, England. For its industry, steel mills and mining, Birmingham, AL was called the Pittsburgh of the South.
Agreed on Kennedy’s speech about going to the moon. “We choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard.”
Love your reaction to this guys.
Ike’s speech is the most important speech ever given by a president. The military industrial complex still haunts the world.
I'm actually ashamed to say that I learned more from your video about my people then I have in my life time. I know I'm going to get a bunch of shit for this but honestly bc of you and your video I'm now educating myself on my own history. I'm not ignorant I know where I come from and all my country has done for us. But now bc of you I want to know more. Thank you for reminding me where I come from and how grateful I am to be American.
Grab a hot pocket.Settle down my freind.Just kidding you.Yeah curiosity is what makes someone exceptional instead of a drone tool.Just ask E.musk.
Oh the 2000 election was actually very much in the air, thanks to Florida (I'm not even joking 😂). There's some good movies on it, and I'm sure there's a youtube video explaining it, but Al Gore speech mainly had to do with the fact that it had been a month after the election and we still didn't know who won.... it's worth looking into though!
The Florida count in the 2000 election was disputed, to the point where the issues got into the courts and then went all the way up, through appeals, etc. to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided to end the recounts, appeals, etc., giving a narrow (less than 1,000 votes) win to Bush. Gore had won the popular vote, but Florida decided the electoral vote against him. What you saw in this speech was Gore conceding -- not because he agreed with the court's decision to stop the recounts, but in order to head off any further political division that could end up in a constitutional crisis. In other words, Gore saw that the good of the country was more important than his own ambitions, so he agreed to stop a contentious process that had already gone on too long.
I'd have to say the closest parallel I've ever heard of British politicians using American style addresses was with Winston Churchill in his famous "We will never surrender" speech, though even then he sounds more like he's done with life given how little energy he puts into it.
"Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live...at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives but they’ll never take our freedom!" Once upon a time at Stirling Bridge
It's pretty cool to see you knowledgeable enough about some topics to explain to your girl why things happened the way they did i.e. why the USA fought in Vietnam 11:00
There was a time when a politician was required to be able to give a speech. Today we are lucky if the politicians can even speak.
I love listening to Winston Churchill's speeches. I think he was the best speaker ever.
I would love to hear Churchill's speech about never giving up and fighting and also the speech from the man about Normandy and Britain's heroic recovery of soldiers.
I'm laughing so hard, and I am 1:09 in. It's because I have heard family members saying similar things, such as where is the video of the Father of Our Country, so I can listen to him. You have a reason to be unclear. You are overseas. This is the first time I have found that to be amusing. Thanks for that. Don't know if I will watch the whole video. But I will give a thumbs up.
The one about Bin Laden should have been included as well. That one is one of the few major events in history that people remember where they were.
As an American I’m impressed the UK has statues of Americans.
Yes EARLY. Exciting to watch
I remember when 9/11 happened how it felt, seeing it on the news, getting sent home from school the shock I remember teachers crying.
as an American I really wish they had that one line from the most epic presidential speech in the US ... and that one line is
- "Bill Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
Man, watching the concession speech and the 9/11 speech back-to-back like that, it really underlines that the attacks happened pretty soon after Bush was elected. I bet Gore was pretty glad he wasn't the one in the White House at that time, and I'm pretty sure there were some times when Bush wished the courts had put Gore in the presidency instead in the days after 9/11. Talk about a hard time to be President.
Listen to Eleanor Roosevelt's talks on the radio and her speeches (FDR's wife). Eleanor Rossevelt was the legs (FDR had polio) and ambassador for FDR.
This is the first of your videos I've watched. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you
Regarding Cuba and Communism. I was born in Florida. I was a child during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later in grade school we had air raid drills. We had to hide under our desks. As an adult the frutility of this is glaring.
The Truman speech about the H-bomb was met with great happiness, especially by American soldiers in the Pacific theatre of operations who otherwise would have had to participate in a land invasion of Japan which would have resulted in tens of thousands of Amercian casualties and many more Japanese military and civilian deaths. In addition, the people then were quite aware of the brutality of Japanese occupations, the Bataan death march, and the pre-war rape of Nanking by the Japanese and consequently had little or no sympathy for them with the news of the bomb. To this day, Japanese school children are not taught the full truth of what their country did.
TR made a campaign speech with a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt...A 90 minute speech.
Good job guys. Impressive that you know some of this
Epic, I recommend this. And also I recommend on your own time that you should watch some of jfk’s speeches. His Inauguration speech, “we will go to the moon” speech, just to name a few. Without a doubt, he was our most charismatic leader by far (and youngest), I wasn’t even alive anywhere near when he was and It makes me so mad he was assassinated, I genuinely believe he could of been one of our all time great presidents if he had more time to serve and wasn’t killed, like up there with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but sadly we’ll never know
The Atomic Bomb story is pretty crazy.
We told Japan we had a bomb that could destroy a city and to surrender or we would use it. They didn't believe such a thing was possible.
WE dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima.
We told them we had another bomb just like that and to surrender our we would use it. They refused because they believed that there was no way possible for us to create two such bombs.
We dropped the second on Nagasaki.
We then told them that we had a third, and to surrender or we would drop it on Tokyo. They STILL refused. The War Council didn't believe we could create more than two bombs like that.
The Emperor dismissed his War Council's advice to keep fighting and agreed to surrender instead of risking the loss of Tokyo.
We have come a long way from ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country.
The Greatest Speech in American History is The Gettysburg Address. Bar none. It has no equal.
Watergate was an office building that housed the Democrate National Committee Office. A group a men brole in and tried to "bug" the phones for the Republican Party so they would know the Democrate's stragies and stuff like that. They were caught in the act and the White House staff was in on it and Nixon got caught trying to cover it up. You really should watch "All the President's Men" great movie.
The bombs used on Nagasaki and Hiroshima were "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", because one bomb was an egg-shaped implosion-type, and the other was a thinner gun-type. Before that, the first atomic detonation was codenamed "Trinity", and was informally called "the Gadget".
I don’t think America actually knew the immense danger of fallout and the cancers that followed the Atomic bombs. That said, Japan was forewarned & described the amt of damage possible by the weapon if they did not withdraw from the war, they refused & it was dropped. Yet the Japanese continued after the bomb dropped and was warned that Nagasaki would be next. Japan continued and that is why they also bombed Nagasaki at this time they surrendered. God bless all those innocent people who died then and suffered down the road with cancers. War is ugly, I pray for World Peace.
Reagan have many great patriotic speeches. I would love for you to watch it.
Yeah I was stunned Reagan wasn't on the list.Great speeches .He was a actor after all.But glib & quick witted.Unlike the idiot in office now.
I am amazed they didn't have any from what is probably the greatest political speech in American history, Ronald Reagan's 1960s a time for choosing.
The speech by Eisenhower where he talked about the military-industrial complex was let's just say a speech he wasn't supposed to give. That turned a lot of heads (and pissed a lot of certain people off) because of the wake-up call it gave the people of the US.
Obama's speech harkened back to the great speeches of the 60's. Great rhetoric that stirred the heart.
@Everything that ever existed is nothing you are too generous.
Reagans speech on the dangers of liberalism are amazing. Trumps last state of the union was the best speech you will ever watch.
It is a crime that "We Must Fight" and "A Soldier's Pledge" didn't make the list.
Watched about halfway through and I can pretty much guarantee there will be now or ever a Trump speech on greatest speeches video. If there is I will be in shock.
Person, woman, man, camera, TV - the master orator Donald J Trump, unfortunately the 45th POTUS.
You're correct, Churchill spoke DIRECTLY to the people, UK PMS are elected on policy.
A few clarification:
North Korea was communist 15 years earlier than Johnson’s speech about Vietnam. The war was to stop its spread throughout Southeast Asia. Subsequently, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos went communist.
Kennedy’s speech was in West Berlin; not West Germany per se. The USSR had already enslaved Eastern Europe, tried to starve the people of West Berlin (saved by a US airlift) and killed millions of its own citizens. (Stalin was a real pip.)
Washington was not around for the US Civil War; he led the army in the US Revolutionary War against England. In either case, it was at least 60 or more years before recording equipment was invented.
The US economy was even better during the Trump Administration. Black and Latino unemployment reached record lows.
There were 2 George Bush’s. Father and son.
Nixon/Watergate: Nixon’s campaign committee broke into the office of the the Democratic National Committee. The break in was not authorized by Nixon (no one claimed that) but he was aware of the cover-up. He was complicit in obstruction of justice and would have been removed from office ultimately. So he resigned. (The irony is he won the election in one of the most lopsided victories ever. The war which Johnson had waged made him and the democrat party so unpopular that he didn’t run for re-election and the VP had no shot at beating Nixon).
I was one of the school children that watch it explode, we all went outside because there was a teacher in the spaceshuttle
As a mother of three and an American some of those speeches are very INSPIRATIONAL like JFK’s, Martin Luther King, because you felt like it came from the heart! Then there were ones that sound great, but they never backed it up with their actions, such as LBJ(Republican), Obama (Democrat). Unfortunately we as Americans have had politicians make promises every 2, 4, or 6 years, get elected and then do nothing they promised! Just a lot of empty promises and a lot of language that caused divisions. Recently and you all touched on it, people around the world as well as our News Media and Democrats looked at the possibility of Donald Trump becoming President as a major joke! I am a veteran and a conservative, meaning that we tend to be very patriotic, we believe in our constitution, we believe in law and order, smaller, less intrusive government, our right to free speech, right as American Citizens ( not illegal immigrants ) to vote, our right to bear arms ( as law abiding citizens, not criminals ) and the belief that our government’s main purpose is to protect its citizens! We and I include myself, voted for Donald Trump, because he was not a politician, he was a businessman and one who had proven he could get things done! We knew he was not the eloquent orator, smooth fork talking politician and we knew he would be a disrupter! The Democrats and mainstream media hated him, how dare an outsider think he could come into their world and out think, out work and out maneuver them! So before he even took the oath of office, the media and the Democrats started the lies! First the Russia collusion lie, which turned out the only person or persons colluding with Russia was Hilary Clinton and the Democrats (proven with an investigation that cost the American taxpayers over 25 million dollars and almost three years of President Trump’s Presidency). The Ukrainian phone call, for which the Democrats impeached him in the House of Representatives, a phone call that over 20 persons were listening in on and only one had a problem with it and that person had been put in that position by President Obama shortly before he left office (coincidence). The so called January 6th insurrection in which the media led the American people to believe only President Trump backers were going to the capital to overthrow the government and take Nancy Pelosi prisoner! First off the media loops two or three short clips over and over of some definite violent aggression, what they don’t show, is the Capital Police opening the metal barricades and waving people in, them, opening doors to the Capital and the Senate floor and welcoming peaceful orderly people inside, they don’t talk about the young female veteran who was unarmed that was shot and killed as she climbed in through a window, how neither of the two Capital Police who died, died due to any violence toward them, but of natural causes, as were I believe three other people who were in the crowds, that died of medical emergencies. Yet the most of the media and Democrats continue to lie about this! There are many, many lies, but very little truths told about President Trump, how his economic policies brought about the lowest unemployment rates ever in every demographic ( whites, Asians, blacks, women, Hispanics etc…), bringing millions of manufacturing jobs back to America, greatest economic growth, made permanent funding for black universities, secured our southern border, thus severely lowering drugs coming in from the drug cartels, China and others, severely reduced human trafficking across the southern border, lowered corporate taxes, which in turn caused those corporations to raise salaries, hire more people and offer better benefits, lowered individual federal income taxes (which put more money in Americans pockets), the three Middle East treaties for which he was nominated for three Nobel Peace Prizes(which we all knew he would never win, because he is an outsider), his rules of engagement in regards to Isis, basically wiping them out, his America first stance, which every other country or kingdom has where they look out for what is best for their country first, but it did not mean he was not wanting to help other countries, his new trade deals that were fair for both, not just the other countries! Most importantly his handling of COVID-19 here in the US, setting up Warp Speed which produced vaccines in a record 10 months and millions of doses had been given prior to his leaving office, even though our current President claims there was no vaccine when he took office (to bad everyone but he knows he had had two doses before he was ever sworn into office)!I could go on and on, but I, I’ll bet most have not even heard of a lot of these accomplishments and while under daily, hourly attacks by the Democrats, Never Trumper Republicans and the media all who hated him again because he was an outsider and because of all he accomplished, made them look bad for all they promised, but never accomplished! They, the Democrats and left leaning media continue to lie about COVID-19and where it originated from, we know now, China knew as early as November of 2019, when three people who worked in the famous Wuhan Lab fell ill and were hospitalized with COVID like symptoms, we know they were experimenting with bats and bat viruses, we know that they shut down all travel from Wuhan to other parts of China, but allowed people leaving Wuhan to travel out of China, Internationally! So they are responsible for millions of deaths around the world, when it all could have been contained inside China! I know President Trump offered to send in help and was told it was contained and wasn’t transmitted from human to human, when China knew that was a lie!
This gentleman is so much more educated on history than my fellow countrymen..."Americans"
i remember the Shuttle explosion, We had a assembly the WHOLE school was watching, and half way it started to blow up and the teachers started scream and cry, one of the male teachers ran to turn off the feed, the older kids new wha was happing that they all died, we they older kids told us younger kids they died, we started to ask question for the next hour and then or parents came to pick us up,