Bush defends wiretaps, urges patriot act renewal
　　12月15日《纽约时报》曝光布什总统在“9/11”后曾多次授权国家安全局非法窃听本国公民通信的消息后，美国会议员12月16日要求对此展开调查。
　　2001年“9?11”恐怖袭击事件发生后仅6个星期，美国国会通过《爱国者法》，授予政府更多权力调查恐怖嫌疑人。根据最初规定，这部法律中的部分临时条款只实行4年，将于今年12月31日废止。 监听丑闻的曝光所导致的直接结果就是美国政府的反恐法《爱国者法》16日在参议院碰壁，支持者未能获得克服反对者阻挠所需的60张赞成票。
President Bush:
Good mornin

President Bill Clinton:
　　My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your president.
　I am profoundly grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve, to work for you and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century. And I'm grateful to Vice President Gore, to my Cabinet secreta

Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate
West Berlin, Germany
June 12, 1987
里根最知名的演讲，就是1987年在柏林布兰登堡门下，他向苏联领导人戈尔巴乔夫呼吁道：
“戈尔巴乔夫总书记，如果你想为苏联和东欧谋取和平、繁荣和自由的话，到这扇大门这
儿来吧，打开这扇大门，拆掉这堵墙吧。”
President Ronald Reagon:
Thank you very much.
Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: Twenty-four ye

ON HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
George Bernard Shaw
July 26, 1926
Of late years the public have been trying to tackle me in every way they possibly can, and failing to make anything of it they have turned to treating me Bs a great man. This is a dreadful fate to over- take anybody. There has been a distinct attempt to do it a

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1829 Fellow-Citizens:
　　About to undertake the arduous duties that I have been appointed to perform by the choice of a free people, I avail myself of this customary and solemn occasion to express the gratitude which their confidence inspires and to acknowledge the accountability which my situation enjoins. While the magnitu

MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1833 Fellow-Citizens:
　　The will of the American people, expressed through their unsolicited suffrages, calls me before you to pass through the solemnities preparatory to taking upon myself the duties of President of the United States for another term. For their approbation of my public conduct through a period which has not b

Dr. Supachai says US must lead in Doha talks
    WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington on 26 February 2004, warned that the alternative

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1837 Fellow-Citizens:
　　The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill——to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast. In imitatin

哈里森出身于弗吉尼亚种植者贵族家庭。 他生于1773年伯克利。父亲本杰明·哈里森曾任弗吉尼亚州长，是《独立宣言》签署人之一。哈里森18岁参军，给安东尼·韦恩将军做副官。1798年任西北地区部长。1798年任新设州——印第安纳州州长。他从印第安人手中夺得3000万英亩土地并入该州。1812年，英军与印第安人联合向印第安那州进犯，美国对英宣战，哈里森作为西北地区联合军司令，取得了泰晤士河战没的胜利。战后历任美国国会众议员、俄亥俄州参议员、美国国会参议员、驻哥伦比亚公使。这位1812年战争中的英雄是在68岁时经过艰苦激烈的竞选才赢得总统职位，然而他却只当了一个月的国家最高行政长官。1841年3月4日哈里森就职那天正遇上寒流，凛冽寒风中，哈里森用了一个半小时宣读他的就职演说。他的演讲加上几位其他官员

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1845
　　Fellow-Citizens:
　　Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. I am deeply impressed with gratitude for the confidence reposed in me. Honored with this distinguished consideration at an earli

MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1849
　　Elected by the American people to the highest office known to our laws, I appear here to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and, in compliance with a time-honored custom, to address those who are now assembled.
　　The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistr

MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861
　　Fellow-Citizens of the United States:
　　In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take in your presence the o

THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789
　　Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
　　Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater an

THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
　　MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1793
　　Fellow Citizens:
　　I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper

　　"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having