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- Caspar Weinberger answers questions on the Middle East, el Salvador, the possibility of American presence escalating into a Vietnamization of El Salvador, and the latest reports on Russian activity on the Polish border.
- Date Issued:
- 1981-04-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President George W. Bush speaks on the day's job data, which reflected a significant increase in the nation's unemployment rate. President Bush says that his administration is working to find the root causes of the economic downturn, focusing on the credit market.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The only known recording of President Benjamin Harrison presumably made years after his presidency by Giuseppe Bettini, sometime between 1894 and 1899. This modern recording features a narrator explaining how Harrison's voice was recorded and features the 1814 campaign song of Harrison's grandfather "Old Tippecanoe," President William Henry Harrison, which was resurrected for Benjamin's 1888 campaign. The Library of Congress says only one copy of the recording has been found and is located at the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Home and this recording was made from that recording.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wilson speaks about the tariff and the regulation of trusts, and the partnership of all people with the federal government. He opens with "We stand in the presence of an awakened nation."
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Acclaimed author Marge Piercy reads from her collected works. Piercy is introduced by Michigan State University Librarian Sharon Ladenson for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Gender and Global Context, the Women's Resource Center, the MSU Department of History, Writing Center, the Residential College of Arts and Humanities, and the MSU Department of English. Held in the Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-03-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- A retrospective covering the tornado that struck Kalamazoo on May 13, 1980. WKZO staff member Fred Douglas narrates the events of the day, from the first reports of a building storm system, to the aftermath and recovery efforts. Interspersed between Douglas' narration are clips from interviews with citizens describing their experiences, news coverage, an ad from the Cooey Knapper Company assuring its customers that it is open, and statements by Kalamazoo Mayor Edward Annen from his temporary headquarters in the WKZO broadcast booth.
- Date Issued:
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor discusses his international career as a geneticist, physician, faculty member and administrator, much of it spent in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. Ajovi recalls coming to MSU from Nigeria in 1965 as an undergraduate, joining the department as a graduate student in 1968 and working with the original faculty. He describes the college's early curriculum and focus on patient care and recognizes the uniqueness of pioneering efforts now copied at many other institutions. Ajovi also talks about returning to Nigeria to become Director of the Institute of Child Health and later coming back to MSU as a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development. He says that collegiality in the department has now waned in the face of administration changes, retirements, and plans to move the school to Grand Rapids. Sociology Professor Meritus Dr. David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- On the Statue of Liberty's 50th anniversary, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt praises the strength and courage of earlier immigrants, and rededicates the statue to liberty and peace.
- Date Issued:
- 1936-10-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama thanks the bi-partisan group of legislators for supporting the JOBS Act as he signs the bill into law. Saying, "the true engine of job creation in this country is the private sector, not the government", Obama explains the act will help start-ups get access to a larger pool of potential investors and make it easier for businesses to become publicly traded companies.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-04-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection