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- President Donald Trump talks about his administration's policy of separating immigrant parents from their children. Trump claims a large percentage of undocumented immigrants are criminals and invites family members of victims of fatal crimes committed by illegal immigrants to tell their stories. Trump also emphasizes the distinction between the permanent separation versus the temporary separation currently experienced by families at the border. Held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-06-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Olympic gymnasts Jordyn Wieber and Jamie Dantzscher and other atheletes testify about the sexual abuse they suffered. The athletes say that figure skating's governing body ignored them and argue that the United States Olympic Committee is culpable for the sexual abuse gymnasts have suffered because they failed to take action against the perpetrators. The athletes testify before the Senate Commerce Committee chaired by Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS) and respond to questions from Committee members.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-04-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Lisa Marie Iat from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe opens the ceremony for the signing of the Tribal Law and Order Act with a wrenching description of a crime perpetrated against her and explains how the Act will help victims like her see justice done. President Barack H. Obama speaks about the need for the Act and explains how the law gives tribal authorities greater responsibility for prosecuting and punishing criminals. Obama also notes the high crime rates on Indian land and explains how the bill will assist tribal authorities.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack H. Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden address military families during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Dr. Biden talks about her own son in the military and Michelle Obama talks about her experiences with military families. The President describes new measures in the Presidential Studies Directive: Strengthening Our Military Families to strengthen and better coordinate the Federal Government's support for military families. Obama promises that supporting the well-being of military families will be a priority across the entire federal government.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-01-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ed Klewicki talks about his time playing football for Michigan State College and his coach Jim Crowley and Crowley's style of coaching. He also talks about playing against future President Gerry Ford in the 1934 Michigan game. Klewicki is interviewed by Fred W. Stabley, MSU Director of Sports Information.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This letter was written by Arthur O. Brickman to Abraham Lincoln regarding his appointment as Chaplain to First Maryland Regiment of
Cavalry. Brickman had been elected to this role, but, due to circumstances, was not mustered. He had been serving in this role unofficially, and
is requesting that Lincoln appoint him to the role. Brickman refers to other men involved in this issue, including Major General John A. Dix
and General Simon Cameron. Brickman also describes his pro-Union activities during the riots in Baltimore, Maryland, which began April 22, 1861.
- Date Issued:
- 1862-01-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Abraham Lincoln Letters
- Description:
- Mary Hall talks about her service as an Air Force officer from 1951 to 1956. Hall says that she enlisted in the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant in November 1951 and discusses her duties in the U.S., being sent to Japan in May 1953 as supply officer, and later to Eglin AFB in Florida with the same assignment. She says that while attending Squadron Officers School in Montgomery, AL, as one of five women in a class of 500 men, she met her husband, married him right after the course finished and left the Air Force in 1956 to start a family. After the Air Force, in addition to raising her family, Hall says that she attend graduate school, did volunteer work, sold real estate and after her husband died in 1991, moved to the Air Force Village in San Antonio and married again. Hall is interviewed by Ruth F. Stewart.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Florence Failing Kenny discusses her service in the British Volunteer Army Division during World War I. Kenny says that she found out about the VAD through newspaper stories in Syracuse, NY where she was attending college and decided to join up and go overseas. Kenny talks about taking convalescing soldiers to have tea with the royal family, meeting Princess Alice, the differences between the English socialites who were in the VAD and the Americans and says that all VAD uniforms were tailor-made because the English socialites wouldn't accept generic sizing for their uniforms. She also remembers being reprimanded by a colleague's parents for taking the English girls to a cocktail bar in London and ending up in a rest home after the war because she had lost so much weight. Kenny is interviewed by Genevieve Hill Cadmus and Thelma Norris.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-05-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Victoria O'Hearn talks about her experiences as nurse in France during World War One. She recalls being asked to translate evacuation notices sent to French citizens just prior to the bombing of their village, being stationed in a Paris hospital and having to chastise Marshall Petain for not closing a hospital door, being lost in the dark during a blackout while trying to help a little French girl shop for a gift, and treating an Italian laborer who trusted her with his life savings to send back to his wife. O'Hearns says that the morale and fighting spirit of French civilians in war time was amazing and that she herself found her work rewarding even in the face of long hours and difficult conditions. Ends abruptly.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Retired Lansing Police Department Legal Advisor Paul McComb discusses his career and his involvement with the Lansing Police Department in an interview with retired Lansing Police Officers James Gleason and John Assiff. McComb focuses on his relationship with the Police Chiefs he worked with and his involvement in police litigation.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection