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- President Donald Trump makes remarks to reporters about the Alabama Senate race, and says he believes the U.S. Congress should release the names of lawmakers who have settled sexual harassment claims. He defends Republican Roy Moore and says Moore's opponent Doug Jones is "soft on crime." Trump makes his comments just before boarding Marine One as the First Family departs the White House for Thanksgiving.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-11-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama, standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches. Obama says that the Selma marches were part of a "broader campaign that spanned generations," and suggests that the work of the campaign for freedom is not yet complete. He asks the members of congress in the audience to go back to Washington and find the support needed to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and also calls on all Americans to work together to "continually try to improve this great nation of ours."
- Date Issued:
- 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama, standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches. Obama says that the Selma marches were part of a "broader campaign that spanned generations," and suggests that the work of the campaign for freedom is not yet complete. He asks the members of congress in the audience to go back to Washington and find the support needed to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and also calls on all Americans to work together to "continually try to improve this great nation of ours."
- Date Issued:
- 2015-03-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Mary Hall talks about her service as an Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956. Hall says that she enlisted in the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant in November 1951 and discusses her duties in the U.S., being sent to Japan in May 1953 as supply officer, and later to Eglin AFB in Florida with the same assignment. She says that while attending Squadron Officers School in Montgomery, AL, as one of five women in a class of 500 men, she met her husband, married him right after the course finished and left the Air Force in 1956 to start a family. After the Air Force, in addition to raising her family, Hall says that she attend graduate school, did volunteer work, sold real estate and after her husband died in 1991, moved to the Air Force Village in San Antonio and married again. Hall is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- President Donald Trump makes remarks to reporters about the Alabama Senate race, and says he believes the U.S. Congress should release the names of lawmakers who have settled sexual harassment claims. He defends Republican Roy Moore and says Moore's opponent Doug Jones is "soft on crime." Trump makes his comments just before boarding Marine One as the First Family departs the White House for Thanksgiving.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-11-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection