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- President Barack H. Obama announces the appointment of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as the new Ambassador to China. Obama describes Locke’s service as the nation’s first Chinese-American Governor (WA) and his two years as Secretary of Commerce and praises his long professional career. Locke describes his family history and talks about his service in the Commerce Department.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-03-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Michigan writer, poet and playwright Anne-Marie Oomen talks about what brought her to writing and how living in Michigan has influenced her work. She describes the state as being both truly and metaphorically her bedrock and discusses her play "Wives of an American king" about the Mormon kingdom on Beaver Island and teaching at Michigan's famous Interlochen Academy. Oomen is interviewed by Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-04-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Dorothy was born in 1904 in Grand Haven, Michigan, and lived in the family home that her father built in 1902. Her father was a clam fisherman on the Grand River and sold the clam shells to the button factory in Lamont. He also worked in local factories, grew fruit, and had a dairy business. Dorothy talks in detail about how blueberry and evergreen farming started in the area. Beginning in the 1950s, the family owned and operated a Christmas tree business which shipped trees throughout the United States.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Clinton also answers reporters' questions about the sinking Brazilian economy and the defense brief in the impeachment trial.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama speaks about the "My Brother's Keeper Initiative" and discuss efforts to launch a new initiative aimed at empowering boys and young men of color to strengthen their chances for success. Christian Champagne introduces Obama.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China speak to the press before a bilateral meeting ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit. They talk about areas of cooperation and areas of continued friction. Jinping speaks through an interpreter. Held at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in The Hague, Netherlands.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks at a state banquet with King Halim of Malaysia in honor of the President's visit to Malaysia. Obama says "thank you" to all of Malaysia, the Malaysian Museum for hosting his mother's collection, and to his hosts, the king and queen for their hospitality.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-04-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- In this installment of "Cross examination," Dr. Willis Dunbar hosts a discussion of displaced persons with a panel featuring John Reid of the Family Service Center, Rev. Yannis Laupmanitz, attorney Lloyd Faling, and attorney Frank Schmiege. The panel talks about the reasons for the large number of displaced persons in the post war era, the demographic make up of the displaced persons camps, the Displaced Person Act of 1948, proposed amendments to the Act and the effect it has has had on Michigan and the Kalamazoo area.
- Date Issued:
- 1949-03-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Responsibility of labor; comments on physical fitness, economy, balance of trade.
- Date Issued:
- 1961-12-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President recaps the high points and achievements of his first year in office and answers reporters questions about topical issues: Eastern Europe, China, Latin America, child care, and a gamut of domestic and foreign issues. Questioners are not the White House Press Corps, but a national convention of newspaper editorial writers.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-12-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection