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Adventures in Speech Amazing Presidential Quotes Solution

1. Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter was speaking to an interviewer from Playboy magazine at the time.
2. Outgoing President James Buchanan was speaking to incoming President Abraham Lincoln on the brink of the Civil War.
3. Abraham Lincoln was reassuring Southern States during his First Inaugural Address.
4. Franklin Roosevelt was responding to charges he'd sent a U. S. Navy destroyer to the Aleutian Islands to fetch his inadvertently abandoned pet dog.
5. Abraham Lincoln made this request of the notoriously lethargic General George B. McClellan.
6. This was John Adams' description of how the story of the American Revolutionary War would be told to future generations.
7. Warren G. Harding made this admission after failing to pre-read a speech prepared for him by a speechwriter.
8. These were Thomas Jefferson's views on religion.
9. Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge lived the philosophy of life he expressed.
10. William Henry Harrison saw the distribution of wealth this way.
11. This was Andrew Johnson's view of the American people.
12. Abraham Lincoln expressed this view in 1856, four years prior to his election as President.
13. Former Civil War Major General Rutherford B. Hayes made this martial figurative analogy.
14. Theodore Roosevelt said this about the value of a college education for the unethical.
15. This was Woodrow Wilson's earliest childhood memory.
16. Massachusetts-born John Quincy Adams made this remark concerning torrid conduct in frigid weather.
17. Warren G. Harding, whose administration was wracked by scandals, saw the Presidency this way.

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