Tonight I ask you all to rise and join me in raising our glasses to the greatest Duke of them all, Duke Ellington.
Under no circumstances should they be given control of the colleges and the universities.
It is time for faculties, boards of trustees, and school administrators to have the backbone to stand up against that ki...
When we think of freedom, we think of many things.
We wholeheartedly agree with your statement that our moral position in the world reflects our devotion to these fundamen...
If I were to pick a time and a place in which to live, I would pick the United States of America right today, 1969.
Now, Duke Ellington is ageless, but would you all stand and sing 'Happy Birthday' to him.
Your concern that Americans speak as one when they seek to promote the cause of human rights is fully shared by this Adm...
And the word 'freedom' is one, coincidentally, that we are using at the moment in our sacred concert.
Never before has a Duke been toasted.
Our government and, I am confident, our people remain committed to continuing action for human rights.
This should be, as it was first proposed, 'an institution of learning that the 22nd Century will regard as having influe...
The District Government cannot be truly responsible until it is made responsible to those who live under its rule.
Our talks proved the occasion for a new departure in friendly cooperation between our two nations.
Sometimes we talk about our schools and our teachers in terms that are very critical, and sometimes we fail to appreciat...
Pennsylvania Avenue should be one of the great Avenues of our Republic—as in the original vision of our Capital City—and...
I urge that Congress promptly enact the necessary authorizing legislation for the 97-mile system.
It should offend the democratic senses of this nation that the 850,000 citizens of its Capital, comprising a population ...
