{"id":2357,"date":"2016-01-18T09:31:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:01","slug":"primary-sources-us-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/01\/18\/primary-sources-us-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Sources US Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">State of the Union 2016<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">Read the full transcript of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/01\/12\/remarks-president-barack-obama-%E2%80%93-prepared-delivery-state-union-address\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">President Obama\u2019s State of the Union speech<\/span><\/a> on the White House website<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/video\/2016\/01\/160112-state-of-the-union-2016-full-video-039468\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Politico<\/span><\/a> has a video of the address and main responses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/sou.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The American Presidency Project<\/span><\/a> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/sou.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">archive of past speeches.<\/span><\/a> It also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/sou_words.php\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">facts and figures<\/span><\/a> on the length and number of words in each of the speeches.\u00a0 Find this link on the library&#8217;s US Givernment Archives page <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/library\/find\/subjects\/history\/usgovernment\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/library\/find\/subjects\/history\/usgovernment <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/01\/the-language-of-the-state-of-the-union\/384575\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Atlantic magazine<\/span><\/a> has mapped the frequency of words in all speeches prior to 2015 giving insight into changing political rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/legislative\/features\/sotu\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">US National Archives<\/span><\/a> has some historic images of speeches<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background: white;color: #222222;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';font-size: 10pt\">Recent presidential speeches, drafts and recordings have also been made available online via:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Franklin D. 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