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- President Barack Obama talks about American manufacturing and the economy during a visit to the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio. Obama says he will continue working to implement the Affordable Care Act and commends Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich for expanding Medicaid and urges other Republican governors to put politics aside and do the same. He also praises ArcelorMittal as a global leader in advanced high-strength steel products and says they will help fuel an American manufacturing renaissance.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-11-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton holds a press conference where he reports on the growth of the nation's economy. Clinton also comments on the country's involvement in the United Nations, U.S. sanctions against Iraq, and the possibility of lifting the Cuban trade embargo. Clinton addresses a desire to work effectively with Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich now that there is a Republican majority in Congress. Clinton also talks about the need to develop bipartisan legislation that restricts the influence of tobacco groups in lobbying. Despite the investigations surrounding him, the President insists that he is focused on leading the country. Clinton criticizes the spending of taxpayer money by the Whitewater Independent Counsel headed by Kenneth Starr.
- Date Issued:
- 1998-04-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Edmund Muskie discusses economic conditions in the United States, stating, if the President asks us to eat less and drive less, he should ask business to charge less.
- Date Issued:
- 1974-10-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton, in his first electronic Town Meeting since he took office, answers questions about Travelgate, the environment, the age of his staff, programs for poor children, China, the $200 haircut, the economy, his infatuation with Hollywood, cutting entitlements, cutting aerospace, gays in the military, health insurance, the homeless, and Chelsea's private school. On the "Morning Show."
- Date Issued:
- 1993-05-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In an oral history interview, Jessie Melis talks about her service as a teacher in occupied Germany from August 1950 to July 1953. She recalls the devastation in German cities, socializing with German citizens, German customs, her living quarters in Munich, taking meals in the officer's mess, her experiences with the black market and the depressed German economy. Melis also talks about meeting former Nazis, the differences between teaching in Germany and the U.S., the differences between American and German students and traveling to Berlin through the Russian Zone. Melis says that she traveled to Palestine and Jerusalem before finally returning to the U.S. to help her family and re-establish her career in East Lansing, MI. Melis is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Richard Nixon gives the State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress, rehearsing the Administrations progress and plans for the future. Broadcast on NBC-TV on January 20, 1972.
- Date Issued:
- 1972-01-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama holds a press conference in the Rose Garden with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper, following discussions by the three leaders on economic and security issues between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. They also talk about narco-trafficking, immigration, NAFTA and other mutual concerns. Calderon uses an interpreter.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-04-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Clinton declares that the state of the Union is good. Topics addressed include the lowest unemployment since 1957; a balanced budget; a budget surplus, 60% of which will go toward saving Social Security, 16% to Medicare,11% to Universal Savings Accounts; a 6-fold increase in scholarships to guarantee college to all interested Americans; school rebuilding and teacher accountability; patients' Bill of Rights; nuclear test ban; conservation; Americorps; campaign finance reform. Hillary Clinton is honored for her work with children.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bush speaks to the press with his cabinet to discuss the nation's economy. Bush stresses that the economic program underway is temporary and limited as the government will be buying only a certain number of shares in individual banks. Bush says he looks forward to visiting small businesses in Michigan that day, adding "And I'm looking forward to sharing my thoughts about why the government has taken these temporary measures designed to make sure that their lives are going to have the best shot at dealing with this financial crisis."
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Franklin D. Roosevelt talks about the banking situation in the U.S.
- Date Issued:
- 1933-03-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection