Today's show was sponsored by It Was Said. History is vast and complex but it can be better

understood by looking at critical moments in which a single person approached a crowd with

something important to say. I'm here to share a preview of the new season of It Was Said,

the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize

winning author historian John Meacham, It Was Said Season 2 will focus on 10 generation

defining speeches, including those from Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill,

Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass. In every episode Meacham along with top historians,

authors and journalists offer expert insights and analysis into the origins, the orator,

and the historical context of these speeches, helping tell the stories of visionary leaders and

disciplined communicators whose words continue to resonate today. Be sure to listen to It Was Said,

a creation and production of Peabody Award nominated C-13 originals in associated with the

History Channel, available now on the Audacity app or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

We stand on a lonely windswet point on the northern shore of France.

The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke

and the cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.

When visionary leaders capture the imagination of a nation,

we choose to go to the moon and disdicate and do the other thing,

not because they are easy but because they are hard.

When disciplined communicators speak truth to power,

it learns that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.

If we can stand up to him or you're up maybe free and the life of the world may move forward.

The course of history can be altered. Humanity has been shaped by moments in which one person

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