This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Frank Oliver tell the story of Abraham Lincoln's speech the Gettysburg Address.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

But there was still a question about whether corporations could have the same freedom of political speech as real people do.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

One reason for the speech was the state of Arizona's recent passage of its own law against illegal immigration.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

That is a promise." The new governor of Virginia gave the Republican response to the State of the Union speech.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

She said that if they could complete one hundred thousand hours of community service,she would give the graduation speech in May.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

So, when the people of the North expected a speech of victory, he gave them a speech of reconstruction, instead.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

In New York, Roosevelt made a major speech promising to continue the work of his administration if he was re-elected.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

On Tuesday the president gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

But it was his speech at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana that received the most attention.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

In January, in his State of the Union speech, President Obama promised to double exports in five years.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

But in nineteen ninety-one, Democrats accused President George H.W.Bush of using the last such speech for political purposes.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

He said in a speech on Wall Street that some of the "old ways" that led to the crisis have already returned.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The speech he gave would be one of his last, as Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe explain this week in our series.

VOA: special.2009.12.31