Presidential Announcements

Images of U.S. Presidents delivering speeches or announcements, featuring podiums and flags in formal settings.

President Bush announces Mike McConnell to replace Negroponte as director of national intelligence
President Bush announces Mike McConnell to replace Negroponte as director of national intelligence
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President Barack Obama looks at a portrait hanging in the Superintendent's quarters at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in West Point, N.Y., before delivering a speech on his new Afghanistan strategy, Dec. 1, 2009.
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Secretary Gale Norton speaking at ceremonies at the War Correspondents Memorial, Burkittsville, Maryland, featuring unveiling of plaque honoring fourprominent journalists killed during war and war-related coverage in Iraq and Pakistan
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Lisa Williams, 6th Air Refueling Wing violence prevention integrator, speaks to Airmen during an all-call as part of wingman day at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, Oct. 21, 2022. During the event, Williams provided Airmen with information on mental health resources to use at MacDill. Throughout the year, MacDill holds wingman days for Airmen to focus on resiliency.
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A Marine waves to the crowd gathered near the Lincoln Memorial as he drives a vehicle in the National Victory Celebration parade. The day-long celebration is being held in honor of the coalition forces that liberated Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Base: Washington State: District Of Columbia(DC) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosts United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps for a bilateral exchange at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Jan 31, 2024.
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Col. Jason Lamb (Ret.) speaks at the 2022 Air Force Global Strike Command Womens Leadership Symposium at Barksdale Air Force Base, April 13, 2022. The 2022 WLS was a two-day event that brought various leaders from across the Air Force together to speak on numerous topics to the audience consisting of men and women of all ranks, experience and time in service.
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221116-N-XC372-1535 JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (Nov. 16, 2022) U.S. President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. greets service members in Hawaii. President Biden was returning to Washington D.C., after engagements with world leaders at events in Egypt, Indonesia and Cambodia.
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March 17, 2014 "Returning from a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, I asked the pilots of the Marine One helicopter if I could photograph from the cockpit as we approached the White House."
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Ambassador Theodore R. Britton Jr. visits Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., April 22, 2022. Ambassador Britton enlisted in the Marine Corps in January of 1944 and attended recruit training at MCRD Montford Point (the recruit depot for all African Americans at the time). After graduating recruit training, Ambassador Britton went on to serve honorably in WWII and the Korean War. After his tenure with the Marine Corps, Britton was discharged at the rank of sergeant, before continuing his illustrious career into the federal government serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and Grenada, as well as the U.S. Special Representative to Antigua, Dominica, and several other countries, under the command of President Gerald R. Ford before resigning under President Jimmy Carter. Now, 78 years later, Ambassador Britton stood aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. for the first time, taking his place amongst those Marines who all began at the yellow footprints.
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President Barack Obama signs a Marine Corps flag after presenting a Purple Heart to HMC Richard Whitney, U.S. Navy, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., March 17, 2014.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses to reflect on the shared sacrifice of U.S., Korean, and other UN soldiers before a list of all soldiers killed in the Korean War together with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and Republic of Korea Defense Minister Kim Tae-Young and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (not pictured) at the Korean War Memorial in Seoul, South Korea, on July 21, 2010.
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President Bush speaks on the global war on terror, one week from the 3-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq
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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks to future USSF Guardians in the Admissions Conference Roomon April7, 2022 at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The future USSF Guardians are Academy cadets who will commission into the U.S. Space Force after graduating from the Academy.
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American president, Woodrow Wilson asking Congress to declare war on Germany, in 1917.
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosts Somali President Hassan Sheikh for a meeting at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)
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2019 North KoreaUnited States DMZ Summit, June 30, 2019. President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim meet with reporters, prior to discussions between the two leaders in Freedom House, in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (BSLOC_2019_6_237)
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Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), participate in a Joint Armed Forces Color Guard during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Feb. 12th, 2024. Laying the wreath in honor of President Lincoln's birthday is Maj. Gen. Trevor J. Bredenkamp, commanding general, Joint Force Headquarters - National Capital Region. Army
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Volunteers in the U.S. Army Garrison Benelux - Brunssum and triborder community received recognition during an event hosted by Army Community Services. Dwayne D. Key II, deputy garrison manager (Brunssum), presented awards and ribbons during the event. Several organizations and individuals throughout the USAG Benelux area of responsibility were recognized for their voluntary efforts to improve their communities at ceremonies April 22, 2022 at SHAPE and USAG Benelux - Brussels in Belgium and at USAG Benelux - Brunssum.
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2006 Korean War Veterans Armistice Day Ceremony at the Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining Vice President Dick Cheney and South Koreaa's Ambassador to the U.S., Lee Tae-Sik, among the dignitaries participating
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Mark Brzezinski, the U.S. ambassador to Poland, gives remarks during the Opening Ceremony for Poland's first Long Term Equipment Storage and Maintenance-Complex at Air Base Powidz, April 5, 2023. The LTESM-C is NATO's most significant single infrastructure investment in more than 30 years and will be able to host a U.S. brigade's worth of combat-ready military equipment.
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National Guard near protest sign outside Union Station DC
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With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr, a U.S. Marine delivers remarks at the Toys for Tots ceremonial presentation to the Marine Corps Reserve, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on December 14, 2016.
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220518-N-OH262-0288 WASHINGTON D.C. (May 18, 2022)--World War II era Merchant Mariners pose for photographs during the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony held to honor Merchant Mariners of WWII, which was held at the U.S. Capital, May 18. During WWII Merchant Mariners put their lives on the line for their country, braving German and Japanese submarines, in their Liberty Ships, as they delivered critical supplies for service members serving in the European and Pacific theaters.