The Aspen Institute

For their third session, the St. Louis cohort of Aspen Young Leaders Fellows is making a trip to the nation’s capital! Fellows will have tons of fun, interaction, and small group learning while exploring DC and the monuments and memorials that pay tribute to important moments in our nation’s rich history. Interacting with all three branches of the federal government, Fellows will visit the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Capitol, and a number of presidential memorials and monuments.

Session Themes:

• Challenge of Leadership: justice, courage, vulnerability, and integrity
• Know Yourself: core values, purpose, responsibility and conviction, living a good life based on virtue
• Community and Society: social good, community values, and social change
• Power, Privilege, and Class: freedom, democracy, suppression, and oppression

Presidential Speeches:

• George Washington
  • September 19, 1776: Farewell Address
• Abraham Lincoln
  • November 19, 1863: Gettysburg Address
  • March 4, 1865: Second Inaugural Address
• Theodore Roosevelt
  • April 23, 1910: The Man in the Arena
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • December 8, 1941: Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War
  • January 20, 1945: Fourth Inaugural Address
• Richard M. Nixon
  • September 23, 1952: “Checkers” Speech
• John F. Kennedy
  • January 20, 1961: Inaugural Address
  • May 25, 1961: The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon
  • June 26, 1963: “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech
• Lyndon B. Johnson
  • March 15, 1965: Speech Before Congress on Voting Rights
• Richard M. Nixon
  • August 8, 1974: Address to the Nation Announcing Decision to Resign the Office of the President
• Jimmy Carter
  • July 15, 1979: “Crisis of Confidence” Speech
• Ronald Regan
  • June 6, 1984: 40th Anniversary of D-Day
  • January 28, 1986: Address on the Space Shuttle “Challenger”
  • June 12, 1987: Address from the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin Wall)
• George W. Bush
  • September 22, 2001: Address on the US Response to the Attacks of September 11
• Barack Obama
  • March 18, 2008: Barack Obama’s Speech on Race
  • November 4, 2008: Remarks on Election Night