which president gave the longest speech and how long did it take?
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I know it was Abraham Lincoln, but I don't know the time frame.
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haha, did u get that from Colbert?\n"Great president or the greatest president?"\nI'd go with the Biggest Scumbag :)
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form flocci­nauci­nihili­pilificastically is subject to controversy. The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, an invented word supposed to refer to a lung disease.
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He said it during his inaugural speech. That and FDR's quote, "The only thing we need to fear is fear itself" are the most memorable inaugural quotes of the 20th Century.
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Teddy Roosevelt.\nSupposedly he gave a speech after being shot but before being treated.\n\nCheck my website source for lots of cool presidential medical info.
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i don't know the answer, but here's the speech:\n\nhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm
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Are you talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech? That is what came to my mind. Other than that, I dunno, but here is a link to that oration. http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/fdrquarn.html
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Rutherford B. Hayes\n\n19th President: 1877-1881
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Ronald Reagan\n\nhttp://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/presidents/firsts.htm
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Benjamin Franklin was the oldest at 70.\n\nI believe Leaves of Grass took longer to write...was 37 years.
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King Afonso I Henrique of Protugal\n\nTake the throne 30 April 1112 - 6 December 1185 for 73 years and 220 days\n\nCurrent King longest is King Bhumibol Adulyadej will 60 years for the throne in June 2006.
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Though he lost 17 of the 19 elections he took part in, the two that he did win, were for Congress and the Presidency...He epitomized determination!\n\nAmong many of his priceless quotations, he said:\n\n"I may be slow, but at least I don't walk backwards"...\n\nHe was considered quite homely, and when he was accused of being two-faced during a debate with his opponent Steven Douglas, he replied,"If I had another face, do you think I would be wearing this one?"...(The crowd loved it!)\n\nWhen his best General, Ulysses S. Grant, who at the time, was the only General winning any battles, was accused by his peers of being drunk all the time, he replied, "Well, find out what he's drinking, and send him another case of it, on me!"...\n\nLastly, he said, "If I had one hour to cut down a tree, I would spend 45 minutes sharpening my axe"...\n\nAdditionally, he had to bear the responsibilty of being at the center of our country's most terrible War...\n\nHe wrote one, of what are considered to be the two greatest speeches in recorded history, the "Gettysberg Address". The other was written by the Greek statesman Pericles, in the 4th Century B.C. Both were delivered while soldiers layed dead in the field. Lincoln wrote his on the back of a plain white envelope, on the train, as he was approaching Gettysberg...
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The Dubya!\n\nThat's George "W" Bush for all of you who don't speak stupid!  I learned that one from the president, himself!
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William Harrison in 1841\n\nWilliam Henry Harrison served the shortest time of any American President -- only thirty-two days. He also was the first President from the Whig Party. He had won his nickname, "Old Tip," as the tough commanding general of American forces who defeated hostile Native Americans at the Battle of Tippecanoe in the Ohio River Valley in 1811
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Our current, G.W. Bush President has taken over 300 days in his two terms. His father , George H Bush took over 500. Clinton took less than 150, and was described as a workaholic.
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Probably Lyndon Johnson.He also said about men he had control over- "I got his pecker in my pocket". And the ever famous-I don't want to forgive him. I want him to kiss my ass at high noon in Macy's window!
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form floccinaucinihilipilificastically is subject to controversy.