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811. U.S. President Obama holds a town hall meeting in New Hampshire

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President Barack Obama holds a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire. He talks about visiting local businesses and discusses his new program to aid small business and community banks. He also answers questions from the audience about the challenges of passing a national health care bill, transparency in government, energy and technology initiatives, public education, and Haitian earthquake relief.
Date Issued:
2010-02-02T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

812. U.S. President Barack Obama talks about reducing federal deficit and pay freeze for federal employees

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President Barack Obama talks about the necessity of reducing the federal deficit and initiatives he is taking to cut spending. He also announces his intention to seek a two-year pay freeze for civilian Federal employees, a measure he claims will provide $28 billion in cumulative savings over the next five years.
Date Issued:
2010-11-29T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

813. Mildred Alspaugh discusses her life as a family member of employees of REO Motor Car Company

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Mildred Alspaugh, daughter, sister and wife of REO Motor Car/Diamond-Reo Truck, Inc employees, talks about the company and her life in a REO workers family in Lansing, MI. Alspaugh tells of her father bringing home his "piece count pay slips" so that she could tally his earnings, of going to the REO Clubhouse as a child, listening to the REO Band, and watching the company ball teams. Alspaugh says that her husband died at the plant after forty years on the job and that other workers collected money to give to her and her children. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
Date Issued:
1992-02-25T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

814. U.S. President Obama speaks at a campaign event held at Minute Maid Park in Houston, TX

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President Obama speaks at a campaign event held at Minute Maid Park in Houston, TX. Obama outlines successes of his administration and warns about returning to policies of the past. He describes goals he hopes yet to attain in education policy, the economy and energy conservation.
Date Issued:
2012-03-09T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

815. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers his first State of the Union address known as the "War on Poverty" speech

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President Johnson delivers his first State of the Union address known as the "War on Poverty" speech. Johnson sets an ambitious agenda for the congress suggesting they need to do more for civil rights, cut taxes, declare "all out war on human poverty," and recognize the health needs of older citizens, while reducing Federal spending. Johnson describes a need to improve education for all, build more hospitals and more libraries, improve housing, provide for old age, and increase employment. He calls for new civil rights laws, changes to immigration policy, and more free trade.
Date Issued:
1964-01-08T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

816. Leila Tarakji, a graduate student in the Department of English at Michigan State University, delivers a presentation on the book "The Moor's account"

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Leila Tarakji, a graduate student in the Department of English at Michigan State University, delivers a presentation on the book "The Moor's account". The historical novel, by Laila Lalami, is an imagined memoir of the life of the first black explorer of the Americas, Mustafa al-Zamori, a Moroccan slave whose story was left out of the historical record. Tarakji prepares the audience to discuss the book. MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis convenes the event and introduces Tarakji.
Date Issued:
2017-01-25T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

817. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast

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President Donald Trump speaks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. Trump tells several stories of people who have gone through struggles or sacrificed for others but held onto hope and faith. Trump says that America is a nation of believers, together strengthened by the power of prayer.
Date Issued:
2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

818. Richard Lugar supports Howard Baker's idea of 50,000 man "first brigade" to oppose worldwide terrorism

Date Issued:
1979-12-23T00:00:00Z
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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

819. I laughed at the wrong time, a comic song by Cal Stewart

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Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

820. Gerald Ford's first speech to Congress as President

Date Issued:
1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection