US Presidential Speeches: Words of their Day 1776-2006

by Rio Flores on November 3rd, 2006

A very cool Digg find for political junkies: Chir.ag has taken major presidential speeches and turned them into into tag clouds.

You can use the slider at the top to go back to George Washington see the emphasis in his speeches on “Assembly” and “Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln, predictably, uses the word “Emancipation” a good number of times. Bill Clinton spends a great deal of time focusing on “Welfare,” “bipartisan” and other domestic issues. Unsurprisingly, W’s most used word is Terrorist.

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