President Roosevelt speaks about an ultimatum given by the Japanese demanding that the U.S. pull out of Wake Island, Midway Island and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The conversation is a segment from recordings made secretly in the Oval Office by FDR.
Boake Carter speaks in support of the America First Committee and staying out of "foreign wars" following calls from Europe for the United States to join World War II. Introduced by an unidentified speaker who speaks about the America First Committee.
Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson discusses conditions in European and other countries at end of World War II; U.S. aid to foreign countries; explanation of U.N.R.R.A. and eligibility of countries for relief.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on America's position on the outbreak of war in Europe. He states the United States will remain neutral, but also voices support for the Allied nations. Introduced by an unidentified reporter who explains that United Kingdom Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had declared war on Germany that morning.
Pearl Harbor Day fireside chat: U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers a message to the American people on the implications and plans for the war.
NBC announcers set the stage for U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's only fireside chat ever delivered before a live audience. The announcers explain that FDR will likely declare an "unlimited national emergency" in light of the German sinking of the British battleship H.M.S. Hood followed by the British sinking of the German battleship Bismarck.
John Jim Pershing talks about preparedness for peace, keeping the European War contained in Europe, isolationism, and supports sending military supplies to Great Britain.
Senator Robert Taft's speech on the Lend-lease Bill. He speaks about the importance of aiding England while also keeping the United States out of the war.
President Clinton, using maps, explains Kosovo's centrality to two preventable World Wars which killed millions, and the 1995 genocide and festering ethnic hatreds.
President Harry Truman delivers a radio address to the American people on the Potsdam conference, his observations of the devastation in Europe, and dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall delivers address from the State Department, Washington, DC following the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers. He speaks about coal, the political and economic situation in Germany, reparations, estalishing German borders, and peace treaties.
