I want to research archives going back 100 years of presidental
canidates speechs. Can you tell me where I might look on the web to
read and research these speechs?

Hi post2~

There are many websites that offer presidential speeches; the trouble
is finding the most helpful sites. With that in mind, here are my
recommendations:

From Revolution to Reconstruction lists all presidents from George
Washington to George W. Bush, including the biographies and documents
and many speeches of each: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/

The Internet Public Library also has a list of presidents, important
facts about their terms in office, and some links to speeches:
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

The Vincent Voice library contains a fascinating collection of
speeches and comments by presidents from Benjamin Harrison forward:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/

The Presidential Speeches Archive contains the text from speeches
delivered by Washington forward:
http://www.geocities.com/americanpresidencynet/archive.htm

Another site that may prove useful to you is Historic Presidential
Speeches: http://www.drpsychotic.com/godandcountry/speeches/presidential_speeches.html

You might also be interested in this list of links about presidential
speechmaking, offered by The Public Speaking Website:
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/histsit.html#presidential  The same
site offers links to historic speeches, although they are presidential
mixed with non-presidential speeches:
http://www.abacon.com/pubspeak/histsit.html#senate

To look specifically at inaugural addresses, see this list of links
provided by Yahoo: http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Executive_Branch/Presidential_Inaugurations/Inaugural_Addresses/
 They also provide a list of links to State of the Union speeches:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Subject/Presidency/Speeches/State_of_the_Union_Addresses/

In addition, visiting the presidential online libraries may prove
useful. Some sites offer documents and speeches online:

George W. Bush: No library yet, but you can view many of his speeches
at Bush Country: http://www.bushcountry.org/bush_speeches/president_bush_speeches_index.htm

Clinton Presidential Center: http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/index.htm

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum:
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/resources.html

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource.htm

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum: http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/

Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum: http://www.ford.utexas.edu/

LBJ Library and Museum:
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/archives-main.shtm

Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace:
http://www.nixonfoundation.org/Research_Center/ResearchCenter.shtml

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/archives.htm

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Library:
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/library.htm

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/research.html

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum:
http://hoover.archives.gov/

Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum:
http://www.forbeslibrary.org/coolidge/coolidge.shtml

Woodrow Wilson Birthplace:
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/

Apparently no library exists for either Warren G. Harding or William
H. Taft (See ?Presidential Libraries? at The White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/liblinks.html and Google searches:
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22William+H.+Taft%22+%22presidential+library%22&btnG=Search
  and     ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Warren+G.+Harding%22+%22presidential+library%22&btnG=Search


Regards,
Kriswrite



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Thank you very much.