The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

The bill called for former President George W. Bush to recognize and use the word genocide in his annual April 24 speech which he never used.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.

In adjectival use, it is generally understood to mean " of or relating to the United States "; for example, " Elvis Presley was an American singer " or " the American President gave a speech today ".

* 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his " domino theory " speech during a news conference.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

May 20 Republican Year 37 / 1948, Chiang Kai-shek's inauguration speech as the first President of the Republic of China in the new constitution of 1948

* 1953 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his " Atoms for Peace " speech, and the U. S. launches its " Atoms for Peace " program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.

* 1901 – US President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20, 000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking the Congress to curb the power of trusts " within reasonable limits ".

* 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.

From 1981 to 1988, he was one of President Reagan's senior speech writers.

He also helped formulate President Reagan's Economic Bill of Rights, which was a series of policy proposals that Reagan introduced in a speech at the Jefferson Memorial.

As the President prepares for a televised speech, he thanks Snake for saving him.

In his 1996 inaugural speech as President of the Royal Statistical Society, Adrian Smith held out evidence-based medicine as an exemplar for all public policy.

It is mandatory for the flag to be used in every official speech made by the President of the European Council and it is often used at official meetings between the leaders of an EU state and a non-EU state ( the national flag and European flag appearing together ).

Fermi recalled the beginning of the project in a speech given in 1954 when he retired as President of the American Physical Society:

The speech delivered by President Roosevelt incorporated the following

President Roosevelt ’ s Four Freedoms speech inspired a set of four Four Freedoms paintings by Norman Rockwell.

In his speech, Douglass spoke frankly about Lincoln, noting what he perceived as both the positive and negative attributes of the late President.

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the most well known in American history.

In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center.

Holt visited the US in late June 1966, where he gave a speech in Washington in the presence of President Johnson.

Some public opinion has started to turn against Hezbollah for their support of Syrian President Assad's attacks on the opposition movement in Syria Crowds in Cairo shouted out against Iran and Hezbollah, at a public speech by Hamas President Ismail Haniya in February 2012, when Hamas changed its support to the Syrian opposition.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

I will reserve discussion of it for a moment, however, to return to President Kennedy.

Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

He would not make a sound until the President had wakened and left for the office ; ;

A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

The move for establishment of a national seashore park on 30,000 acres of Cape Cod, from Provincetown to Chatham, is strengthened by President Kennedy's interest in that area.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.

`` The American press clamored for many days promising President Kennedy would reply to the most vital domestic and foreign problems confronting the United States.

In fact, the world heard nothing but sabre-rattling, the same exercises which proved futile for the predecessors of the current President.

Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).

He may appeal to President Sukarno for clemency ''.

As we see, Pope may appeal to President Sukarno, Khrushchev's friend, for clemency.

The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;