In his inaugural speech, Van Buren noted that he was the first American born after the revolution to become president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

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Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

President Obama discussed American development plans in his Middle East policy speech last week at the State Department.

VOA: special.2011.05.27

In September,nineteen-oh-one, President McKinley made a major foreign policy speech at the Pan-American Fair in Buffalo,New York.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

President Obama talked about Iraq in a speech Monday to the Disabled American Veterans Conference in Atlanta,Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

President John Kennedy set the goal in a speech to Congress and the American people.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The expression "to buffalo" soon became part of the speech of the American west.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Some are new. Together,they form the living speech of the American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

He gave his farewell speech to the American people Thursday night.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Together, they form the living speech of the American people.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

In a speech to members of the American Medical Association at their annual meeting in Chicago, the president spoke in stark terms.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Republicans like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have vowed to keep the pressure on Mr.Obama on Afghanistan, as he did in a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

"I have every belief that when he finishes his speech tomorrow, the American people will be able to put aside some of the ridiculous falsehoods that have been perpetrated these past few weeks, and focus on what we are going to do that is positive for this country,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.08