presidential addresses
Leader's formal speeches
Presidential addresses are formal speeches delivered by a president to the nation or a legislative body.
These include inaugural addresses, State of the Union addresses, and speeches on national crises or policy.
The term also covers where presidents have lived: Presidential addresses have ranged from New York to Washington to a peanut farm in Georgia.
- State of the UnionPresidential report to Congress
- fireside chatCasual public radio talk
- Capitol stepsStairs at government building
- my fellow AmericansCitizens addressed collectively
- four scoreBiblical term for eighty
call to action · bully pulpit · podium speech · rhetorical devices · Oval Office · Rose Garden · historical references · thesis statement · introduction · Emancipation Proclamation · prime time · prime time slot · joint session · teleprompter
- speechesspeech, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy, monologue
- media archivesnews archives, newspaper archives, music archives, newsreels, news footage
- Political DocumentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, founding documents
- radio broadcastsnews broadcasts, commentary
presidential addresseswater cooler talk
Informal workplace chatter
idle chatter · small talk · locker room talk · water cooler chat · pillow talk
presidential addressesstreet corner preaching
protest chants · letters to the editor · voice of the people
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