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- Vice President Biden highlights the Obama administration's significant progress on its plan to reduce gun violence that was announced in January, including strengthening the existing background check system, empowering law enforcement, making schools safer, encouraging responsible gun ownership, ending the freeze on gun violence research, preserving the rights of health providers to protect their patients and communities, and improving access to mental health care. He describes continued efforts in the Congress to pass meaningful gun control measures and provides statistics of the number of deaths by gunfire in the U.S. since the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings. Biden is introduced by Steven Barton who recounts his experience as a survivor of the Aurora, CO theater shooting.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-06-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama says that if Congress does not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget today, much of the United States government will be forced to shut down tomorrow. He says his hope and expectation is that Congress, especially the House of Representatives, will "do the right thing." Held in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-09-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- The Sherwood family came to Grand Haven in 1904, and together with the Jacobson and Johnson families, became leading entrepreneurs of the area. In this interview, Marion and his daughter Lynne discuss the businesses that were developed by the Sherwood, Jacobson and Johnson families. These included the Grand Haven Brass Foundry, Grand Haven Stamped Products, and Michigan Plastic Products, Inc. The families later collaborated to form the JSJ Corporation in 1970. Marion was its first director and served as the company's first president until 1977. He also served as trustee for the Grand Haven Area Community Foundation. Also in this interview, Marion gives a history of the Grand Haven State Bank.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President George W. Bush makes his fourth State of the Union address focusing on domestic issues, foreign policy, and the war in Iraq. On the United States economy, President Bush says in order to make it stronger, more dynamic, competitive, and productive we need to demand better results from high schools, encourage small businesses, and look towards renewable energy. President Bush announces that the government will continue to support faith-based groups, which bring hope to harsh places. He asks that the Ryan White Act be reauthorized to bring prevention, care, and treatment to the HIV/AIDS outbreak. When speaking of the war in Iraq, Bush says, "In the long term, the peace we seek will only be achieved by eliminating the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of murder." Showing the improvements of the Palestinian regions, Bush talks about the recent voting in the area, in which many women got the chance to speak out in their government. To promote peace in the Middle East, Bush states that the U.S. must work with its friends in the region to fight the common threat of terror and confront regimes that continue to harbor terrorists and pursue weapons of mass murder. "Today, Iran remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror -- pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people of the freedom they seek and deserve."
- Date Issued:
- 2005-02-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Johnson accepts an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Michigan President Harlan Hatcher.
- Date Issued:
- 1964-03-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Vice President Dick Cheney speaks to business leaders about President George W. Bush's budget proposal on the day following Bush's first State of the Union address. Cheney discusses tax cuts, spending levels, Social Security and the national debt. Following his statement, Cheney answers questions from the media. Held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-02-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Bush begins his speech with two one-liners, one about his wife's superior speaking talents, and one about having vomited in Japan. He says that the biggest events in our lives are the death of Communism and America's victory in the Cold War. Bush also talks about Kuwait, hostage release, and the Arab-Israeli peace talks. Bush says that the United States is now the sole, preeminent world power. He says that he will shut down the B2 bomber, small ICBM, and other missiles, including cruise missiles. He says he will meet with Boris Yeltsin to eliminate even more arms, and will cut defense spending 30% and no more, and that he will press for SDI, the strategic defense initiative.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health care and national economic progress made over the past six years. Held at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-07-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Arrival ceremony for Brazil's President Fernando Cardoso at the White House. President Clinton and President Cardoso both allude to the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City, and speak of the importance of a US-Brazilian alliance in defending freedom and spreading democracy in the Western hemisphere.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wanda Sherwood Kearns discusses her service as an air traffic controller in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) of the U.S. Naval Reserves during World War II. Kearns talks about her basic training in Atlanta, Georgia, learning Morse code and how to "fly blind" in a flight simulator and shares military aviation anecdotes. She says that control tower operators were considered elite and were allowed privileges such as time off between shifts, weekend passes, and free flights to any military base. She also recalls that a woman's voice was thought to be more clearly intelligible over the radio than a man's and that women controllers were allowed to wear slacks to ensure decorum when they climbed ladders. Kearns is interviewed by Kathryn Cavanaugh.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-08-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection