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- President Clinton's press conference deals with NAFTA, the Crime Bill, and campaign finance reform. He answers questions about the Wharton resignation, the Israel/Jordan negotiations, and introduces a 17-year-old Vietnamese American Kan Fong.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-11-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In this installment of "Western Michigan at work," Dr. Willis Dunbar profiles the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company. Dunbar gives a brief history of vegetable parchment paper and tells the story of Jacob Kindleberger, who immigrated to the United States as a young man and eventually moved to the Kalamazoo area to open the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company in 1909. Dunbar also gives an overview of the ways the company has expanded since 1909 interviews a variety of company employees including Dr. James Pollack, pastor at the Parchment Community Church, Henry Smith, a paper cutter, and Winifred Schultz, a company clerk.
- Date Issued:
- 1946-10-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Morton discusses the threat of more than one dollar per barrel increase in the price of oil, is happy that the President has discretionary powers.
- Date Issued:
- 1975-06-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Theodore Roosevelt, presidential candidate for The Progressive Party, nicknamed The Bull Moose Party, delivers a campaign speech titled, "The Farmer and the Businessman." Roosevelt cautions against unreasonable conservatism as well as unreasonable radicalism. He concludes with, "The watchword for us all is spend and be spent."
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Democrats response to President Reagans State of the Union address by Jim Wright and Robert Byrd.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- M. Cecil Mackey, former president of Michigan State University and current professor of economics, discusses his education, career, and tenure as MSU President. Mackey talks about his efforts to maintain the authority of the MSU Board of Trustees and planning the Breslin Center while president and his time as an economics professor since he left the presidency. Mackey also reminisces about his early career as counsel for the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the Department of Transportation, as well as his early posts as President of the University of South Florida and Texas Tech. Mackey says that military conscription in both World War II and the Korean War had a definite impact on his education and discusses his opinions on the current state of higher education. Mackey is interviewed by retired MSU Professor Pauline Adams for the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Oral History Project.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Fiction writer Steve Amick talks about his book "The lake, the river & the other lake : a novel," how Michigan influences his writing, his activities as a song writer, playwright, and copy editor, and his current projects. Amick is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-02-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Writer Lev Raphael reads selected passages from "Secret anniversaries of the heart," a collection of his short stories, and his memoir "Writing a Jewish life." He answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2006-09-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Barack Obama introduces the Economic Recovery Advisory Board. President Obama opens the speech by referencing the record 600 thousand unemployed announced in the last month. Obama announces the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, saying "A historic crisis calls for a historic response." Obama will meet regularly with this informing counsel, which is to be lead by Paul Volcker.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-02-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michigan State University Distinguished Professor Leonard M. Fleck discusses issues raised in his recent book, "Just caring : health care rationing and democratic deliberation". Fleck says that advances in technology have created unlimited health care needs, which society does not have the resources to meet. Health care must inevitably be rationed, he says and citizens must face the moral and political challenges this presents. Offered as part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Fleck is introduced by MSU Librarian Joshua Barton.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection