Famous Speeches: 1941-1956

Franklin D. Roosevelt "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" Speech to Congress December 8, 1941

Franklin D. Roosevelt Reports Allied Forces Liberate Rome 1944

Harry S. Truman on the First Atomic Attack Against Japan August 6, 1945

Harry S. Truman Signs the United Nations Charter 1945

Winston Churchill "An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across the Continent" 1946

Harry S. Truman Accepts Democratic Nomination for President July 15, 1948

Harry S. Truman Inaugural Address January 20, 1949

Douglas Macarthur Address to Congress April 20, 1951

Richard M. Nixon "Checkers Speech" September 23, 1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower Announces End to Korean War 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Convention Address August 23, 1956