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Vital Speeches of the Day is a monthly magazine that presents
speeches and other public addresses in full. Vital Speeches of the Day
Editor David Murray
Overview Former Thomas Daly III
editors
Vital Speeches was established in New York City in 1934 by Thomas Categories Politics
Daly, whose grandson Thomas Daly III moved publication to South
Frequency Monthly
Carolina in 1986.[1] It is published by Pro Rhetoric, LLC.
Publisher Pro Rhetoric, LLC
The magazine first appeared in October 8, 1934[2] and its first issue Year 1934
included speeches by US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nobel
founded
Peace Prize winner Nicholas Murray Butler, David Lawrence, the
legal expert Ferdinand Pecora, and economist and eugenicist Irving First issue October 8, 1935
Fisher.[3] As of 1995, the magazine had published speeches by every Country United States
president since Roosevelt, although the publication avoided campaign
Based in Chicago, IL
speeches. Its editor, Thomas Daly IV, said of such speeches, "A lot of
that is hot air."[1] Language English
Website www.vsotd.com (http://
According to their policy statement:
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The publisher of Vital Speeches believes that the ISSN 0042-742X (https://ww
important addresses of the recognized leaders of public w.worldcat.org/searc
opinion constitute the best expression of contemporary h?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:004
thought in America, and that it is extremely important for
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the welfare of the nation that these speeches be
permanently recorded and disseminated. The publisher
has no axe to grind. Vital Speeches will be found authentic and constructive.[4]
The periodical is included in various guides to reference works. These guides typically describe Vital Speeches
in politically neutral terms, as when Guide to Reference Materials offered this summary: "Each semimonthly
issue contains the full text of some 12 to 15 addresses on public issues delivered by important figures. The
editors attempt to select speeches pertaining to all sides of controversial issues."[5]
In January 2009, the magazine launched Vital Speeches International which compiles English-language texts
from outside the United States.
References
1. Bruce Smith. "In world of flux, magazine unswayed: publication ignores sound-bite trend," The
State (Columbia, SC), October 28, 1995, page B8.
2. "About Vital Speeches" (https://prorhetoric.com/vital-speeches-of-the-day/about-vital-speeche
s/). Pro Rhetoric. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
3. "In Current Magazines" (column), The Dallas Morning News, February 10, 1935, page 8.
4. "Policy of Vital Speeches". Vital Speeches of the Day. LXXII (14–15): 418. May 2006.
ISSN 0042-742X (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0042-742X).
5. "1069. Vital Speeches of the Day," Guide to Reference Materials.
External links
Official website (http://www.vsotd.com)
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