Prepare a speechHave a closer look at this extract. I am sure you can find so much information for yourpresentation: Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Seventy-seventh Congress:I addressyou, the Members of the Seventy-seventh Congress, at a momentunprecedented in the historyof the Union. I used the word "unprecedented," because at a previous time, American securityhas been as threatened as itis today. Since the permanent formation of our Government underthe Constitution, in 1789,most of the periods of crisis in our history have been related to ourdomestic affairs. Only one of these — the four-year War Between the States — everthreatenedour national unity. Today, thank God, one hundred and thirty millionAmericans, in forty-eightStates, have forgotten points of the compass in our nationalunity. It is true that before 1914 theUnited States often was being disturbed by events inother Continents. We had even engaged in
