Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress: I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word “unprecedented” because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened f rom without as it is today
Lyndon Baines Johnson: \We Shall Overcome\ Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the Congress: I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. I urge every member of both parties, Americans of all religions and of all colors, f rom every section of this country, to join me in that cause. At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning