Of the ten best speeches I've listened to in my life, Bush has delivered 3.
Speech to the Nation, Sept. 20,2001 ranks in the top 5.
Anybody have some other top notch memories?
MLK....I have a dream
JFK........inaugural address
Reagan.......acceptance speech at 1980 Republican Convention.
Winston Churchill.......iron curtain
The Press would have us all believe that George W. Bush couldn't put together two sentence's, yet alone a whole speech. The Speech writer is also groomed by the President and his closest advisors in order to convey the President's vision. I read David Frum's book and it was a great insight to how a speech writer is moulded into the Presidents speech writer
Sally Fields accepting her Oscar.
I have only dim memories of it now, and a general impression of it, and some recollection of comments I've read about it afterward, but Ronald Reagan's speech for Barry Goldwater -- I think it was the nominating speech, but I'm not sure -- at the 1964 Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco was a stem-winder and an American classic.
And giving credit as an orator, Jesse Jackson gave a helluva speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. I didn't agree with anything he said, but he proved he had a silver tongue.
Douglas Macarthur, his retirement speech to the Corps of Cadets at West Point. Some cadet fortunately recorded it, on one of those old boxy reel-to-reel recorders, the ones with the 5" spools. Thank God he did!