RFKs speech was bigger than you would think. The city who he delivered the news of MLKs assassination was one of the few places where grief did not turn into rioting
Beesley, one the best subject/reactions you have ever done. Most people even Americans haven't heard many parts of these. It is not only very educational/uplifting for ALL your viewers but a much deeply needed reminder to Americans. Thank you so very much for this. Love you for this bro...and I'm sober.
As an American I look to these speeches to remind especially in these times just what my country can be and we can do. It gives me immense national pride and hope for the future of my country despite the challenges we've had recently and the ones we're going to face in the near future and sometimes It's good to get away from Facebook and how politically divided everyone is on there and watch these to cheer me up a bit.
I wish more people would study these speeches and understand that together we are stronger, and divided we will fall. America doesn't always get it right, but in the short history of our country, we've made tremendous progress. With authoritarianism and chaos on the rise around the world, from Europe to Asia, and yes, even in the US (due mostly to China and Russia), it's absolutely necessary for the democracies around the globe to remain united in the pursuit of progress, equality, and basic human rights. Thanks for reacting to this video! 🇺🇲💙🇬🇧
RFK was put in such a rough position during that speech, and i for one think that for someone forced to deliver terrible news he showed a massive amount of empathy and sympathy for the loss of such an important man
My dad to this day can’t talk about RFK’s assasination. With everything going on at the time RFK was a ray of hope who was taken too soon. Say what you will about the Kennedy’s but they saw the change that was needed and they were prevented from making it.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech put him in the role of Moses... the biblical prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Moses was fated to see the "Promised Land" from the top of a mountain, but died just short of entering himself. P.S. Robert F Kennedy, like MLK and his brother John, was killed by an assassin's bullet two months after Dr. King.
Yeah but he just wasn't speaking for the black man or woman....he was speaking of all...don't judge by their skin color judge by their content of character. you have to get to know somebody to know their content don't ya...his last line was the best when he said we all have to hold hands and SCREAM free at last!!! we got to cut the yoke...we cut the yoke of the king and made a new one riveted with gold
I was just a kid when I was watching with my classmates the countdown as the Challenger lifted. Seconds after it exploded and we all looked at each other in shock and a classmate said "what happened?" We were old enough to know but didn't want to face it. There were jokes and that's how children deal with trauma. It was awful...
Some of the best speeches from JFK that I like are his we’re going to the moon speech and the Cuban missile crisis speech he gave but my grandma always said her favorite speech of all was Bill Clinton when he said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
These speeches remind me that the US is still such a young country and in the past couple of centuries so much has happened. We need to get back to being the idealistic country with hope for the future. I think a lot of people want to focus on how divided we are but fundamentally, most Americans want the same things. We want to live in a country that is safe where we can afford to live and have a prosperous future that doesn't just benefit one group of people but all of us. Hopefully we can unite.
I was in elementary school when the Challenger blew up. I couldn't understand what happened and why they turned off the tv so suddenly and why we were sitting in classroom not talking. The teachers didn't k ow how to address it I guess.
Beesley, as a former history teacher and love of political discourse, I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for showing these speeches. Many of my greatest heroes of whom I only wish I could emulate are here giving us words of wisdom that are still relevant in 2021 as they were when they were spoken. President Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK, the incomparable Dr. King, Bobby Kennedy, and so many more that make me hope that someday we all will really reach that Mountaintop that Dr. King talked about. Thank you again for reminding all of us the good that Humankind can achieve if it so desires it and if it listens to the powerful words so many have tried to tell us since Humankind made its way onto the scene of History.
I think there's a gemstone that's kinda known from its contents but not from its context. Check out Charlie Chaplain's 1940's "The Great Dictator" speech. It's a 2 hour talkie (early movie with dialogue and sound) where Chaplain plays a "Hitler-esque" character, but in his own fashion. Disregard the assumptions you have about all of that and just look up the speech. It's actually really really moving for the time it was made and is pretty appropriate for today.
Thank you for choosing to react to this video. Some of those speeches are well-known parts of history, but some are just inspiring. Yes, enjoyed it very much. It was terrific!
Still makes me sad that we lost such great leaders before their time: John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and Robert F Kennedy, who likely would have been the next president if he lived. Makes me wonder how things would have turned out. And Eisenhower was right. He tried to warn us. Think Americans need to share that speech every so often as a reminder. Gore's speech is even more relevant now, considering recent events. And I miss Obama
@@beautifulbliss5883 , this is not a 3rd President Obama term. Get over yourself! Go read! Learn something! Always negative comments about black people! GTH!
@@kdmcollegebd2012 What? I'm a Latina, and have black family members from my dad's side of the family. And I didn't mention his skin color. You did. I was talking about his policies and his ideas. I don't know about you but I don't like paying $4.99 a gallon for my 2009 Corolla. For being anti-racist you sure mention people's skin color. The only reason I brought up my race was because you think I'm white.😂🤣.
@@beautifulbliss5883 I couldn’t agree with you more, friend. We are living in an Obama regime 2.0. That man and his senile cronie, Biden, are once again destroying our great nation. There are so many parallels, you’ve gotta be stupid to not see them *cough, cough Leslie* it’s so funny to me how ppl like Leslie always resort to “go educate yourself” and mention race. They’re living in a cloud of cognitive dissidence. They are the real racists and the ones who need educating.
Thank you for this! I did learn about many in school and remembered hearing them in our American History Classes. The first one I really remember was the Challenger Exploded - I was in 10th grade (15 years old) - we were watching it in school. The rest of them I remember. Very refreshing to listen to these Amazing Americans again. Proud to be an American!!!
I have just recently started watching ur channel. I absolutely LOVE ur channel. The greatest men and women who inspired our nation were assassinated and it may be that they were assassinated by all that is evil in our nation. We are right now in the middle of a movement that may very well dictate our future for yrs to come. I pray we can come together as a people, one people, a proud people. I am African American and I see good and bad in all races, however, lately sheer and utter hatred has once again very forcefully reared its head. We pray for our nation, we pray for our allies, and we stand with you and for you as you have stood with us. Thank you for this. Your channel should be watched by every American. Again thank you.
Robert Kennedy's speech on MLK's death is definitely a very memorable speech that's kinda looked over. And definitely deserves to have a look at the whole thing.
I love the fact that you’re learning so much about our great land! Thank you! I’ll have to look up some of your history. It’s good to know each other! I wish I could have a brew with you and Millie!
I think of the lost souls of those who felt so threatened by this man's words that they killed him. MLK's words were meant to unite people. Yet those dark hearts were scared of us being united. A very sad time in America.
I was one of those school children watching the space shuttle Challenger that day. It was so surreal and hard to understand (I was 8, I think) but I did understand that I had just watched those astronauts die. I'll have that memory burned into my memories forever...
Fun fact regarding Vietnam: A study by the C.I.A. named “Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam” basically claimed that a failure in Vietnam would not lead to any major repercussions for U.S. or the global spread of communism like Johnson was expecting. It suggested that the scale of American involvement in the war was radically disproportionate to the war’s importance to America. Overall, it suggested that the U.S. should basically just pull out of Vietnam, but Johnson basically ignored it. The war cost roughly $900 billion dollars in today’s dollars.
I feel so conflicted watching some of these speeches, especially Reagan's. Reagan did some terrible things to this country, including completely ignoring the AIDS crisis, and some economic decisions that have had devastating long term effects. The RFK speech is particularly poignant given that he was assassinated very soon after MLK. That was a huge turning point in American political history.
@@ms_scribbles I feel about Reagan similar to the way I feel about T. S. Eliot: a terrible person with a remarkable talent for a beautiful turn of phrase. Of course, Reagan did have scriptwriters.
@@flouisbailey Oh, how cute. You and your new little mantra that you can use to signal other knuckle-draggers. Makes ya feel good, doesn't it? All warm and fuzzy, protected by a thin veil of translucent bigotry and self-righteousness. It's so adorable that your little club has a slogan now. Quaint, effectively. When your done fending off imaginary bêtes noires, feel free to join humanity's grace. We have cookies. Real ones, not feign. Oh, let the hilarity ensue.
I appreciate the video. I am an American. I just wanted you to know, years ago I gave my Uncle a book of quotes of Winston Churchill. I only mean we admire England as well.
Part of the speech the night before Mr.Kings assassination was because of threats.They begged him the next day to not go out and he did on his way down a balcony he stopped to talk to crowd and was shot.
I was working in the Newsroom of a major Newspaper and saw the Challenger explode live on TV. I started to cry in shock and horror. A reporter asked me "Why are YOU crying?" I looked at him and said "Don't you get it? Everyone in the world just lost something very precious and important." What an idiot. I was heartbroken.
The Challenger launch happened when I was a kid. Every kid in school watched it. Every kid. The reason why was because a school teacher was on that shuttle. Every kid in a public school watched people die.
MLK talking about being to the mountaintop was a reference to Moses, who went up to the mountaintop to see the Holy Land, but he never got there, he died still on the march. Watergate: The Watergate Hotel was a hotel and office building in Washington where the Democratic Party headquarters were located. A group of Nixon operatives broke into the Headquarters to steal campaign information. They reported to Nixon's campaign staff and Nixon covered it up. He only resigned because otherwise he would have been impeaches for his involvement in the coverup. Nixon's Vice President, Spiro Agnew, had resigned prior for his fraudulent actions when he was Governor of Maryland. Nixon had chosen Gerald Ford to serve as Vice President. It was the first time that anybody became President who had never been elected as President or Vice President. One of Ford's first acts was to pardon Nixon for anything he had done prior to his resignation.
From 20 January, 1973 to 20 January 1977, there were 3 Presidents and 4 VP's.......Nixon elected in 72.... inauguration 20 JAN 73, VP was Agnew, Agnew resigned and Ford was nominated by Nixon and confirmed 06 DEC 1973, Nixon resigned 09 Aug 1974 and Ford became POTUS, Rockefeller became his VP.....1976 election Carter won and was inaugurated 20 JAN 1977 with Walter Mondale as VP.....between 20 JAN 1973 and 20 JAN 1977: President: 1. Nixon 2. Ford 3. Carter Vice President 1. Agnew 2. Ford 3. Rockefeller 4. Mondale
cannot believe it left off the greatest speech of all time The Great Dictator Speech - Charlie Chaplin + Time - Hans Zimmer (INCEPTION Theme) th-cam.com/video/w8HdOHrc3OQ/w-d-xo.html it is 80 years old and STILL as relevant today as it was then.
@@DaMathias movie was made in America, by Americans, and you clowns consider because he was not a citizen of America reason to say it is not part of American History. Gotta be conservatives with logic like that, Cancel Culture much?
I’ve been alive since the Nixon speech but I have heard all these speeches. The US has seen so much tragedy and horror. Why can’t we all embrace each other as humans and stop the waste of time and life? I hope that question is answered sooner than later. Thanks for your interest in these speeches and our history tragedy and joy in the bravery of all of these people.
This didn't include "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" by Barry Goldwater, "We Choose To Go To The Moon" by John F Kennedy, "The Dream Shall Never Die" by Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama's 2004 DNC speech etc. All of them were amazing speeches
I'm a huge Kennedy fan and love that speech....he also said, " our most basic, common link is that we all inhabit the small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal."
During the election, Nixon political allies broke into the offices of the Democratic Party located in the Watergate complex in DC. The burglars were discovered and arrested. The scandal is about Nixon’s attempt to cover up his involvement. You might like reading All the President’s Men by Woodward and Bernstein. It’s also a pretty good movie.
I do have a quibble with the clip of LBJ and the Vietnam war. When LBJ made that decision it was popular. He didn’t want to do it but felt he would lose reelection if he didn’t. That he would be criticized for being soft on communism. But the war was such a disaster and the media coverage was bringing it into American living rooms every night so people could see US soldiers destroying Vietnamese villages etc. and there was no progress being made in the war. That’s when the war became unpopular and he lost re-election. He was really damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. It’s literally what Eisenhower was warning us about with the military industrial complex. The intelligence was telling us from the beginning that we couldn’t win that fight and the Pentagon was like just throw more money and resources at it. Didn’t work then and didn’t work in Afghanistan.
I am an American who has looked in to American history and especially Watergate and the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War actually had nothing to do with the taliban and was a Civil War between communist north Vietnam and anti communist South Vietnam. The soviets supported communist north Vietnam and the Americans supported South Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson sent thousands more troops to Vietnam to fight what he called an "un winnable war". However, he had no choice but to send to troops because if he didn't, the soviets would take a major victory and possibly win the cold war. Lyndon Johnson was in a no-win scenario in my opinion. Watergate was a giant scandal that plagued the nixon administration during its later years and ultimately let to the only presidential resignation in history. To give you the basics of Watergate, it was when the nixon administration broke in to the apponent party's building and stealing papers which helped nixon win the re-election. After he was caught he tried to cover up the scandal which ended up ruining his presidency. Had he not resigned, he would have been the only president in history to be impeached and removed from office. There is also a really good book about nixon and Watergate. You can check it out here but, it is a little pricey so I recommend looking at your local library for it first. The link is here: Richard M. Nixon: The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974 www.amazon.com/dp/0805069631/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_H5BDPXFTF8K97AH9DFFT
You are right, he probably would have been impeached.....Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 which was the first. If Nixon didn't resign and was impeached, he would have been the 2nd President to be impeached, and had been convicted he would have been the first to be removed as a sitting President, but Johnson was still the first
I'm neither a Democrat or Republican but in independent I vote for action not for a single person or a single group and so I'd have to say Kennedy... Martin Luther King... Reagan were my heroes growing up
Being a peacemaker is always a dangerous thing; it's not an easy thing to do, and it usually claims the life of the peacemakers themselves. Sadat made peace with the Israelis, and was killed for it. Mandela was imprisoned for years. Gandhi was also imprisoned, and was later assassinated. And they might not have "inherited the Earth" themselves, but their followers and countless others benefited from their bravery. As for Watergate, Nixon had his "plumbers" (because plumbers "fix leaks") break into the HQ of the Democratic Party at the Watergate office complex. He wanted them to dig up some dirt on his opponent. It wasn't so much the burglary itself but the fact that he tried to cover up the fallout from the scandal using his executive authority.
From this to, "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything." How far this country fell in eight years.
Watergate was a scandal where the Republican Nixon sent out minions to break into the Democratic National Committee's offices in the middle of the night to place wiretapping devices to spy on the DNC. Then Nixon compounded on his crimes by perpetrating a massive cover-up. The only reason he resigned was because Congress had voted to impeach him and was about to remove him from office, so he pre-empted them. The worst thing President Ford did when he came into office was giving Nixon a pardon. The man should have spent most of the rest of his life in prison.
As good as that acceptance speech was, by President Obama, you should check out the one he gave, 4 years earlier, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where John Kerry got the nomination. He was an unknown Congressman from Illinois. It put him on the "political stage" immediately.
I remember serving a mission for my church in Oklahoma and I was in a small town and we just walked into a shop to introduce ourselves and they had a little TV in the corner up on the shelf when we watched as challenger it happened in real time.... It was devastating.... You are so excited for those teachers and you just couldn't believe it.... Watching 9/11 happen in real time was even bigger than that and I don't know if I forgot quite over either of them
A group of people broke into the Democratic party offices in the Watergate building. Some of Nixon's staff in the White House were deeply and directly involved. Nixon himself was involved in covering up the white house connections if not in the break in itself. It has never been clear to me whether he knew about it in advance or whether he just helped cover it up. I don't think he was a crook in the conventional sense - he didn't seem to be in it for the money - but I've always believed that he thought that it was so important that he remain president that he looked past the crimes involved.
Ever notice how everyone that plans to demoralize or stop the US before we can stop them in some war, always ends up just awakening the giant? Imperial Germany, Imperial Japan, Al Qaeda.
What we all need to understand is that the United States, like everything created by humans is a work in progress. Perfection is not what we have, but what we strive for, but can never achieve. It is the struggle that is important.
Well ich bin ein Berliner is "I am a donut" in german but he made a twist to it stating "i am a Berliner, berliner being a donut in german" so yes he Didnt mess up but he did do the wrong pronounceation.
@Audie Murphy His speech at the Riverside Baptist Church in NYC on April 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was murdered at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when he denounced the Vietnam War which I would participate in after entering the US Army in 1970 as a member of the Army Security Agency was also notably impressive. And this is not to mention his "I've been to the mountaintop..." speech he gave before those striking garbage workers on the same date in Memphis where the next day he was assassinated by the next day at the aforementioned James Earl Ray also must go down in the annals of great American oratory.
I Enjoyed the video. Don't get the idea that African Americans were not allowed to vote until the 1960's. That God given right was enumerated in the 15th amendment to our constitution which was ratified in 1870 shortly after the civil war. During the period after the civil war, what we call Reconstruction, some black people were even elected to congress. During that time however, formally confederates states passed, what we call Jim Crow laws that made it very difficult or impossible for most black people to vote. Removing the the vestiges of these laws and abolishing segregation in the south is what MLK was speaking about.
Barack Obama is one of the best orators I have ever witnessed. Every one of his speeches is full of intelligence, power and hope. It is a sad thing to have him witness, only a few years later, the bumbling idiot DT ruin all he had accomplished with this great land. My hopes are that President Biden has learned from Obama and will continue his legacy turning these United States back to a land of hope and integrity.
RFKs speech was bigger than you would think. The city who he delivered the news of MLKs assassination was one of the few places where grief did not turn into rioting
And sadly, RFK was himself assassinated later
His speech the next day was an even better speech.
Beesley, one the best subject/reactions you have ever done. Most people even Americans haven't heard many parts of these. It is not only very educational/uplifting for ALL your viewers but a much deeply needed reminder to Americans. Thank you so very much for this. Love you for this bro...and I'm sober.
I have. I love history. Would be nice if more Americans would know their history.
Exactly..and how to be strong..I got misty eyed 2 or 3 times
As an American I look to these speeches to remind especially in these times just what my country can be and we can do. It gives me immense national pride and hope for the future of my country despite the challenges we've had recently and the ones we're going to face in the near future and sometimes It's good to get away from Facebook and how politically divided everyone is on there and watch these to cheer me up a bit.
Well said. Same here
Agreed
I wish more people would study these speeches and understand that together we are stronger, and divided we will fall. America doesn't always get it right, but in the short history of our country, we've made tremendous progress. With authoritarianism and chaos on the rise around the world, from Europe to Asia, and yes, even in the US (due mostly to China and Russia), it's absolutely necessary for the democracies around the globe to remain united in the pursuit of progress, equality, and basic human rights. Thanks for reacting to this video! 🇺🇲💙🇬🇧
“A house divided cannot stand”
@@cygnusx-3217 ... said the lonely internet troll. ☹️
RFK was put in such a rough position during that speech, and i for one think that for someone forced to deliver terrible news he showed a massive amount of empathy and sympathy for the loss of such an important man
RFK was a good dude. Sadly, we lost him not long after, and I wonder how much better our country would be right now if he'd been President.
My dad to this day can’t talk about RFK’s assasination. With everything going on at the time RFK was a ray of hope who was taken too soon. Say what you will about the Kennedy’s but they saw the change that was needed and they were prevented from making it.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech put him in the role of Moses... the biblical prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Moses was fated to see the "Promised Land" from the top of a mountain, but died just short of entering himself.
P.S. Robert F Kennedy, like MLK and his brother John, was killed by an assassin's bullet two months after Dr. King.
Yeah but he just wasn't speaking for the black man or woman....he was speaking of all...don't judge by their skin color judge by their content of character. you have to get to know somebody to know their content don't ya...his last line was the best when he said we all have to hold hands and SCREAM free at last!!! we got to cut the yoke...we cut the yoke of the king and made a new one riveted with gold
I was just a kid when I was watching with my classmates the countdown as the Challenger lifted. Seconds after it exploded and we all looked at each other in shock and a classmate said "what happened?" We were old enough to know but didn't want to face it. There were jokes and that's how children deal with trauma. It was awful...
People always overlook the main quote from the first speech of this video.. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Some of the best speeches from JFK that I like are his we’re going to the moon speech and the Cuban missile crisis speech he gave but my grandma always said her favorite speech of all was Bill Clinton when he said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
You are a good fellow to hear these speeches so kindly,
These speeches remind me that the US is still such a young country and in the past couple of centuries so much has happened. We need to get back to being the idealistic country with hope for the future. I think a lot of people want to focus on how divided we are but fundamentally, most Americans want the same things. We want to live in a country that is safe where we can afford to live and have a prosperous future that doesn't just benefit one group of people but all of us. Hopefully we can unite.
I was in elementary school when the Challenger blew up. I couldn't understand what happened and why they turned off the tv so suddenly and why we were sitting in classroom not talking. The teachers didn't k ow how to address it I guess.
Beesley, as a former history teacher and love of political discourse, I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for showing these speeches. Many of my greatest heroes of whom I only wish I could emulate are here giving us words of wisdom that are still relevant in 2021 as they were when they were spoken. President Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK, the incomparable Dr. King, Bobby Kennedy, and so many more that make me hope that someday we all will really reach that Mountaintop that Dr. King talked about. Thank you again for reminding all of us the good that Humankind can achieve if it so desires it and if it listens to the powerful words so many have tried to tell us since Humankind made its way onto the scene of History.
That JFK speech in Berlin gets me everytime
I think there's a gemstone that's kinda known from its contents but not from its context. Check out Charlie Chaplain's 1940's "The Great Dictator" speech. It's a 2 hour talkie (early movie with dialogue and sound) where Chaplain plays a "Hitler-esque" character, but in his own fashion. Disregard the assumptions you have about all of that and just look up the speech. It's actually really really moving for the time it was made and is pretty appropriate for today.
Thank you for choosing to react to this video. Some of those speeches are well-known parts of history, but some are just inspiring. Yes, enjoyed it very much. It was terrific!
Still makes me sad that we lost such great leaders before their time: John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and Robert F Kennedy, who likely would have been the next president if he lived. Makes me wonder how things would have turned out.
And Eisenhower was right. He tried to warn us. Think Americans need to share that speech every so often as a reminder.
Gore's speech is even more relevant now, considering recent events.
And I miss Obama
Don't worry we are having a third Obama term now. We are doing such a great job. 👏👏👏👏
@@beautifulbliss5883 , this is not a 3rd President Obama term. Get over yourself! Go read! Learn something! Always negative comments about black people! GTH!
@@kdmcollegebd2012 What? I'm a Latina, and have black family members from my dad's side of the family. And I didn't mention his skin color. You did. I was talking about his policies and his ideas. I don't know about you but I don't like paying $4.99 a gallon for my 2009 Corolla. For being anti-racist you sure mention people's skin color. The only reason I brought up my race was because you think I'm white.😂🤣.
Obama is the cause of our current condition. Not because of his skin color, because of his communist ideology.
@@beautifulbliss5883 I couldn’t agree with you more, friend. We are living in an Obama regime 2.0. That man and his senile cronie, Biden, are once again destroying our great nation. There are so many parallels, you’ve gotta be stupid to not see them *cough, cough Leslie* it’s so funny to me how ppl like Leslie always resort to “go educate yourself” and mention race. They’re living in a cloud of cognitive dissidence. They are the real racists and the ones who need educating.
Thank you for this! I did learn about many in school and remembered hearing them in our American History Classes. The first one I really remember was the Challenger Exploded - I was in 10th grade (15 years old) - we were watching it in school. The rest of them I remember. Very refreshing to listen to these Amazing Americans again. Proud to be an American!!!
I have just recently started watching ur channel. I absolutely LOVE ur channel. The greatest men and women who inspired our nation were assassinated and it may be that they were assassinated by all that is evil in our nation. We are right now in the middle of a movement that may very well dictate our future for yrs to come. I pray we can come together as a people, one people, a proud people. I am African American and I see good and bad in all races, however, lately sheer and utter hatred has once again very forcefully reared its head. We pray for our nation, we pray for our allies, and we stand with you and for you as you have stood with us. Thank you for this. Your channel should be watched by every American. Again thank you.
My grandfather was in the national guard and listened to Martin Luther king.s he told me he weaped with joy
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I would love to see your reaction to the gettysburg address given by President Lincoln after the deadliest battle of the civil war.
Listening to Clinton's final State Of The Union makes me pretty emotional. Just how quickly things went back to shit afterwards......
Well said
Robert Kennedy's speech on MLK's death is definitely a very memorable speech that's kinda looked over. And definitely deserves to have a look at the whole thing.
I love the fact that you’re learning so much about our great land! Thank you! I’ll have to look up some of your history. It’s good to know each other! I wish I could have a brew with you and Millie!
I think of the lost souls of those who felt so threatened by this man's words that they killed him. MLK's words were meant to unite people. Yet those dark hearts were scared of us being united. A very sad time in America.
I was one of those school children watching the space shuttle Challenger that day. It was so surreal and hard to understand (I was 8, I think) but I did understand that I had just watched those astronauts die. I'll have that memory burned into my memories forever...
One of the Challenger crewman was a teacher and thousands of schoolchildren were watching the broadcast.
Johnson’s speech meant more because he was a southerner
Fun fact regarding Vietnam: A study by the C.I.A. named “Implications of an Unfavorable Outcome in Vietnam” basically claimed that a failure in Vietnam would not lead to any major repercussions for U.S. or the global spread of communism like Johnson was expecting. It suggested that the scale of American involvement in the war was radically disproportionate to the war’s importance to America. Overall, it suggested that the U.S. should basically just pull out of Vietnam, but Johnson basically ignored it. The war cost roughly $900 billion dollars in today’s dollars.
I feel so conflicted watching some of these speeches, especially Reagan's. Reagan did some terrible things to this country, including completely ignoring the AIDS crisis, and some economic decisions that have had devastating long term effects.
The RFK speech is particularly poignant given that he was assassinated very soon after MLK. That was a huge turning point in American political history.
Reagan talked a good game, but he never walked the walk. His administration was a big catalyst for what we see in the Republican party today.
@@ms_scribbles I feel about Reagan similar to the way I feel about T. S. Eliot: a terrible person with a remarkable talent for a beautiful turn of phrase. Of course, Reagan did have scriptwriters.
@@polarisnorth Let’s Go Brandon.
@@flouisbailey Oh, how cute. You and your new little mantra that you can use to signal other knuckle-draggers. Makes ya feel good, doesn't it? All warm and fuzzy, protected by a thin veil of translucent bigotry and self-righteousness. It's so adorable that your little club has a slogan now. Quaint, effectively. When your done fending off imaginary bêtes noires, feel free to join humanity's grace. We have cookies. Real ones, not feign. Oh, let the hilarity ensue.
@@Gitano_Music You sound like one of the 81 million billion XiDen voters, enjoy Inflation and border jumpers.
I appreciate the video. I am an American. I just wanted you to know, years ago I gave my Uncle a book of quotes of Winston Churchill. I only mean we admire England as well.
RFK was himself assassinated not long after that.
Part of the speech the night before Mr.Kings assassination was because of threats.They begged him the next day to not go out and he did on his way down a balcony he stopped to talk to crowd and was shot.
The Gettysburg Address is the greatest (1863)
I guess they must've lost the video of that one.
Here's your sign.
I love the fact that the video bookends with the beginning. 24:39. Berry references the first clip at 1:07
I saw the Challenger on TV. I was 12. It was especially painful because a teacher from my state -Christa McAuliffe was lost in the Challenger tragedy.
I was working in the Newsroom of a major Newspaper and saw the Challenger explode live on TV. I started to cry in shock and horror. A reporter asked me "Why are YOU crying?" I looked at him and said "Don't you get it? Everyone in the world just lost something very precious and important." What an idiot. I was heartbroken.
So many of them were assassinated and I don't think they'd change a thing. It's one of many things that makes me proud to be American.
You may want to check out the video by U2 ‘pride’ the song is about Dr. King.
1:00: How about fearing a president who was so ignorant of basic economics that he tried to tax his way out of an economic depression?
You have to do a video about watergate! It's one of the biggest political scandals in US history.
The Challenger launch happened when I was a kid. Every kid in school watched it. Every kid. The reason why was because a school teacher was on that shuttle. Every kid in a public school watched people die.
MLK talking about being to the mountaintop was a reference to Moses, who went up to the mountaintop to see the Holy Land, but he never got there, he died still on the march.
Watergate: The Watergate Hotel was a hotel and office building in Washington where the Democratic Party headquarters were located. A group of Nixon operatives broke into the Headquarters to steal campaign information. They reported to Nixon's campaign staff and Nixon covered it up. He only resigned because otherwise he would have been impeaches for his involvement in the coverup. Nixon's Vice President, Spiro Agnew, had resigned prior for his fraudulent actions when he was Governor of Maryland. Nixon had chosen Gerald Ford to serve as Vice President. It was the first time that anybody became President who had never been elected as President or Vice President. One of Ford's first acts was to pardon Nixon for anything he had done prior to his resignation.
From 20 January, 1973 to 20 January 1977, there were 3 Presidents and 4 VP's.......Nixon elected in 72.... inauguration 20 JAN 73, VP was Agnew, Agnew resigned and Ford was nominated by Nixon and confirmed 06 DEC 1973, Nixon resigned 09 Aug 1974 and Ford became POTUS, Rockefeller became his VP.....1976 election Carter won and was inaugurated 20 JAN 1977 with Walter Mondale as VP.....between 20 JAN 1973 and 20 JAN 1977:
President:
1. Nixon
2. Ford
3. Carter
Vice President
1. Agnew
2. Ford
3. Rockefeller
4. Mondale
cannot believe it left off the greatest speech of all time
The Great Dictator Speech - Charlie Chaplin + Time - Hans Zimmer (INCEPTION Theme)
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it is 80 years old and STILL as relevant today as it was then.
"Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History." Charlie Chaplin was English.
@@stonewall01 fasist much
@@Gantzz321 I'm fascist because you can't read?????
@@Gantzz321umm, Charlie Chaplin is not an American.
@@DaMathias movie was made in America, by Americans, and you clowns consider because he was not a citizen of America reason to say it is not part of American History. Gotta be conservatives with logic like that, Cancel Culture much?
I’ve been alive since the Nixon speech but I have heard all these speeches. The US has seen so much tragedy and horror. Why can’t we all embrace each other as humans and stop the waste of time and life? I hope that question is answered sooner than later. Thanks for your interest in these speeches and our history tragedy and joy in the bravery of all of these people.
Guess what! the USA said "Tear Down This Wall!" And it came down! !
We must not let these speeches be lost to history.
Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg address is the best speech in American history.
I remember when the the wall went up and more importantly, when it came down.
Challenger was buck wild for my generation. We all watched it live in school.
Based on some of the comments you have made you should hear two songs what the world needs now by Tom Clay and garden party by Rickie Nelson
I had never seen the 2000 State of the Union Adress, I was born in 97 and that speech is depressing to hear in hindsight
This didn't include "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" by Barry Goldwater, "We Choose To Go To The Moon" by John F Kennedy, "The Dream Shall Never Die" by Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama's 2004 DNC speech etc. All of them were amazing speeches
I'm a huge Kennedy fan and love that speech....he also said, " our most basic, common link is that we all inhabit the small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal."
Some of the 9/11 phone calls were recorded and they are chilling to hear 😢
You need to watch some more Reagan speeches he has some of the best
During the election, Nixon political allies broke into the offices of the Democratic Party located in the Watergate complex in DC. The burglars were discovered and arrested. The scandal is about Nixon’s attempt to cover up his involvement. You might like reading All the President’s Men by Woodward and Bernstein. It’s also a pretty good movie.
I think Martin Luther King knew he was going to die, that's the reason he said he's been to the mountain top
James you should check out Reagan’s speech to the British Parliament! It was great!
Thatcher also gave a speech to the US Congress.
To me it was JFK when he said America isn't perfect but we never had to build a wall to keep people in.
I do have a quibble with the clip of LBJ and the Vietnam war. When LBJ made that decision it was popular. He didn’t want to do it but felt he would lose reelection if he didn’t. That he would be criticized for being soft on communism. But the war was such a disaster and the media coverage was bringing it into American living rooms every night so people could see US soldiers destroying Vietnamese villages etc. and there was no progress being made in the war. That’s when the war became unpopular and he lost re-election. He was really damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. It’s literally what Eisenhower was warning us about with the military industrial complex. The intelligence was telling us from the beginning that we couldn’t win that fight and the Pentagon was like just throw more money and resources at it. Didn’t work then and didn’t work in Afghanistan.
You should react to every us president by John D Ruddy, great channel and great vid.. it is a little long
I am an American who has looked in to American history and especially Watergate and the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War actually had nothing to do with the taliban and was a Civil War between communist north Vietnam and anti communist South Vietnam. The soviets supported communist north Vietnam and the Americans supported South Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson sent thousands more troops to Vietnam to fight what he called an "un winnable war". However, he had no choice but to send to troops because if he didn't, the soviets would take a major victory and possibly win the cold war. Lyndon Johnson was in a no-win scenario in my opinion.
Watergate was a giant scandal that plagued the nixon administration during its later years and ultimately let to the only presidential resignation in history. To give you the basics of Watergate, it was when the nixon administration broke in to the apponent party's building and stealing papers which helped nixon win the re-election. After he was caught he tried to cover up the scandal which ended up ruining his presidency. Had he not resigned, he would have been the only president in history to be impeached and removed from office.
There is also a really good book about nixon and Watergate. You can check it out here but, it is a little pricey so I recommend looking at your local library for it first.
The link is here:
Richard M. Nixon: The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974 www.amazon.com/dp/0805069631/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_H5BDPXFTF8K97AH9DFFT
You are right, he probably would have been impeached.....Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 which was the first. If Nixon didn't resign and was impeached, he would have been the 2nd President to be impeached, and had been convicted he would have been the first to be removed as a sitting President, but Johnson was still the first
I'm neither a Democrat or Republican but in independent I vote for action not for a single person or a single group and so I'd have to say Kennedy... Martin Luther King... Reagan were my heroes growing up
The speech was at the Berlin Wall. Reagan made a speech there decades later.
Being a peacemaker is always a dangerous thing; it's not an easy thing to do, and it usually claims the life of the peacemakers themselves. Sadat made peace with the Israelis, and was killed for it. Mandela was imprisoned for years. Gandhi was also imprisoned, and was later assassinated. And they might not have "inherited the Earth" themselves, but their followers and countless others benefited from their bravery.
As for Watergate, Nixon had his "plumbers" (because plumbers "fix leaks") break into the HQ of the Democratic Party at the Watergate office complex. He wanted them to dig up some dirt on his opponent. It wasn't so much the burglary itself but the fact that he tried to cover up the fallout from the scandal using his executive authority.
In a short period of time, we’ve come a long way, ba ba…..
From this to, "Yeah that's her with the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything." How far this country fell in eight years.
Watergate was a scandal where the Republican Nixon sent out minions to break into the Democratic National Committee's offices in the middle of the night to place wiretapping devices to spy on the DNC. Then Nixon compounded on his crimes by perpetrating a massive cover-up. The only reason he resigned was because Congress had voted to impeach him and was about to remove him from office, so he pre-empted them. The worst thing President Ford did when he came into office was giving Nixon a pardon. The man should have spent most of the rest of his life in prison.
As good as that acceptance speech was, by President Obama, you should check out the one he gave, 4 years earlier, at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where John Kerry got the nomination. He was an unknown Congressman from Illinois. It put him on the "political stage" immediately.
@@Sudas80 lmao. I can’t tell if you’re being sincere or sarcastic, but it’s hilarious regardless.
@@Sudas80 bro chill we’re 2 presidents pass him now, move on
Nothing is hard son, we can split the atom.
I remember serving a mission for my church in Oklahoma and I was in a small town and we just walked into a shop to introduce ourselves and they had a little TV in the corner up on the shelf when we watched as challenger it happened in real time.... It was devastating.... You are so excited for those teachers and you just couldn't believe it.... Watching 9/11 happen in real time was even bigger than that and I don't know if I forgot quite over either of them
Clinton’s 2000 speech, Yeah the 90s were great. The calm before the storms to come.
I swear Reagan just was a crazy good speaker
"Why can't we all just get along?" No shit. Why?
Here is a link to the history of the Watergate scandal... www.history.com/topics/1970s/watergate
Some walked the walk. Others talked the talk. Obama was quite the smooth storyteller.
I’ve been to Pearl Harbor 3 times. Half of my family is from Hawaii
KENBEDY WAS THE MOST CHARISMATIC LEADER IN THE U.S. AND IN THE WORLD.
Roosevelt created the middle class in his first year
A group of people broke into the Democratic party offices in the Watergate building. Some of Nixon's staff in the White House were deeply and directly involved. Nixon himself was involved in covering up the white house connections if not in the break in itself. It has never been clear to me whether he knew about it in advance or whether he just helped cover it up. I don't think he was a crook in the conventional sense - he didn't seem to be in it for the money - but I've always believed that he thought that it was so important that he remain president that he looked past the crimes involved.
Be cool if they could add martin luther king to mount rushmore if anyone deserves its him .
Regardless Of your feeling about Obama the dude could give a good finicky speech
I actually think Reagan's address after the Challenger was his best.
Valvano. Best ever...
I was there for his last speech in Reynold's that honored his 83 team. Not a dry eye in the house.
@Beesley Listen to the Red White and Blue by Toby Keith.
Ever notice how everyone that plans to demoralize or stop the US before we can stop them in some war, always ends up just awakening the giant? Imperial Germany, Imperial Japan, Al Qaeda.
Obama was such well founded speaker! A man who wanted to bring everyone together! Not only from are country but from the world!
What we all need to understand is that the United States, like everything created by humans is a work in progress. Perfection is not what we have, but what we strive for, but can never achieve. It is the struggle that is important.
Good god I remember exactly where I was 9/11 like yesterday
I dont know how true it is but someone who spoke German said JFK messed up and said I am a donut. 😆
Well ich bin ein Berliner is "I am a donut" in german but he made a twist to it stating "i am a Berliner, berliner being a donut in german" so yes he Didnt mess up but he did do the wrong pronounceation.
This a random idea but can you react to “The greatest Showman with Keala Settle
America had some great orators throughout its history, but none have been the equal of Winston Churchill.
So much potential in JFK... tht he was never given the chance to realize...a loss to the entire free world ..
MLK Jr. was probably the greatest orator in American history.
@Audie Murphy His speech at the Riverside Baptist Church in NYC on April 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was murdered at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when he denounced the Vietnam War which I would participate in after entering the US
Army in 1970 as a member of the Army Security Agency was also notably impressive. And this is not to mention his "I've been to the mountaintop..." speech he gave before those striking garbage workers on the same date in Memphis where the next day he was assassinated by the next day at the aforementioned James Earl Ray also must go down in the annals of great American oratory.
Can we get the FULL NASCAR race highlights for tomorrow?
I was in elementary school when JFK was killed and I remember that everyone everywhere were crying
I Enjoyed the video. Don't get the idea that African Americans were not allowed to vote until the 1960's. That God given right was enumerated in the 15th amendment to our constitution which was ratified in 1870 shortly after the civil war. During the period after the civil war, what we call Reconstruction, some black people were even elected to congress. During that time however, formally confederates states passed, what we call Jim Crow laws that made it very difficult or impossible for most black people to vote. Removing the the vestiges of these laws and abolishing segregation in the south is what MLK was speaking about.
...Not to be trivial, but if you gon' drop the Mic...
Barack Obama is one of the best orators I have ever witnessed. Every one of his speeches is full of intelligence, power and hope. It is a sad thing to have him witness, only a few years later, the bumbling idiot DT ruin all he had accomplished with this great land. My hopes are that President Biden has learned from Obama and will continue his legacy turning these United States back to a land of hope and integrity.
You should look up president Ronald Reagan's speeches he has alot of good one. He slips a bit of humor in on some of them.
Jesus Christ don’t pause in the middle of a speech to read what it’s about if you’re gonna pause go back and listen to the beginning