TY - BOOK AU - Logue,Cal M. AU - Messina,Lynn AU - DeHart,Jean Laura TI - Representative American speeches 2005-2006 T2 - The Reference shelf SN - 0824210646 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - H.W. Wilson KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 2001- KW - Sources N1 - Includes index; 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 ER -