Before Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, the most popular speech by far in the United States was George Washington’s presidential farewell speech of 1796. But in November 1863 Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address surpassed Washington’s speech in terms of popularity to become America’s most quoted and loved speech. Later on we had both John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural speech […]
Goodbye to the Clinton Dynasty!
What an outcome! Dismissed as an outsider, Donald Trump, in the words of one commentator, “took on and comprehensively beat the party political system in first the Republicans and secondly the Democrats”. Now, the outcome of the election has changed everything. The question as to why he won cannot be answered in just a simple […]
Political Debate: How Can We Avoid the Usual “Slugfest?”
For many of us in Western European and in the United States, politics seems to have lost its appeal and hit a new low in terms of trust. Perhaps this isn’t entirely surprising after watching the leaders TV debates on both sides of the Atlantic and the British debate on Brexit. One commentator last week […]
