... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...d than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and ad vantage; between... ...of God. Franklin D. Roosevelt FOURTH INAUGURAL ADDRESS SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1945 The fourth inauguration was conducted without fanfare. Because of th... ...build our solid structure of democ racy. And so today, in this year of war, 1945, we have learned lessons—at a fearful cost—and we shall profit by th... ...the world who scorn our vision of human dignity and freedom. One nation, the Soviet Union, has conducted the great est military buildup in the histor... ...uce the need for it. And this we are trying to do in negotia tions with the Soviet Union. We are not just discussing limits on a further increase of ...

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... Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National C... ...Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 ... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...nternal and external threats; but because NORAD was created to counter the Soviet threat, it came to define its job as defending against external atta... ... to define its job as defending against external attacks. 96 The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the numb... ...been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became indepen- dent states. 39 This pattern of expansion through bui... ...in his weakest position since his early days in the war against the Soviet Union.The Sudanese government had canceled the registra- tion of the main b... ... Office of Strategic Services and Disposition of its Functions,” Sept. 20, 1945;“Presidential Directive on Coordination of Foreign Intelligence Activi...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...