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Voices of US Presidents of the Twentieth Century

Grade Range: 4-12
Resource Type(s): Web Link
Date Posted: 9/28/2008

The Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University is working to preserve over 100 years of historical spoken word recordings like those of the U.S. Presidents, and shares some of the sound samples from its collection for students, teachers, and scholars on this website. The site is an easily searchable library of primary audio sources of any president from Benjamin Harrison to George W. Bush.

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Keywords

American history, US history, politics, Nixon, Richard, government, 20th century, Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, political science, History, civics, United States history, Kennedy, John F., presidency, president, executive, 1900, presidential, United States Government, executive branch, chief executive

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