Representative American speeches 2005-2006 / 
editors, Calvin M. Logue, Lynn M. Messina, and Jean DeHart. 
 - New York :  H.W. Wilson,  2006. 
 - ix, 182 p. ;  26 cm. 
 - The Reference shelf ;  v. 78, no. 6 .
 - Reference shelf ;  v. 78, no. 6. .
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>1. Secrecy and disclosure. Computer provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act / Steven M. Martinez -- In the kingdom of the half-blind / Bill Moyers -- What American intelligence and especially the NSA have been doing to defend the nation / Michael V. Hayden -- Fooling the people / Hodding Carter III -- 2. American culture and the arts. Eight things I learned in the belly of the whale / Jean Trounstine -- The footprints and the giant: exploring the value of the arts to communities / Andrew Taylor -- "Never show the audience the back of your neck": the Nancy Hanks lecture on arts and public policy / William Safire -- Southeastern theatre conference / Anne Bogart -- 3. Responding to natural disasters. Address to the nation from New Orleans / George W. Bush -- Rosh Hashanah president's speech / Jerry Elman -- Conference to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake / Dianne Feinstein -- National convention of the American Red Cross / Michael Chertoff -- 4. Farming and agriculture. Transformational farm policy: will it work? / Chuck Hassebrook -- Oh where wilderness?: thoughts on the virtue of farm, family, and the rural life / Justin Isherwood -- 2006 agricultural outlook forum; Farm policy: a portfolio of economic opportunity for rural America / Mike Johanns -- University of Wisconsin-Madison commencement address / Odessa Piper -- 5. Africa. Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum / Condoleezza Rice -- Center for international political studies / Jendayi Frazer -- The endangered children of northern Uganda / Jeffrey Krilla -- State of democracy and human rights in Africa: the U.S. perspective / Linda Thomas-Greenfield. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0824210646 9780824210649 9780824210649 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--2001---Sources.