Welcome to It Was Said, Season 2, with Jon Meacham

It Was Said

Audacy Podcasts | The HISTORY Channel

History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Welcome to Season Two of It Was Said, a documentary podcast series that looks back on 10 of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author-historian, Jon Meacham, created, directed and produced by C13Originals Studios, in association with HISTORY Channel. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We stand on a lonely wind-swept point on the northern shore of France.
0:12.0	The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the
0:18.6	cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
0:27.4	In visionary leaders capture the imagination of a nation.
0:31.9	We choose to go to the moon and this decay and do the other things, not because they are
0:37.4	easy but because they are hard.
0:41.5	When discipline communicators speak truth to power.
0:45.5	It learns that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
0:51.9	We can stand up to him or your of may be freed and the life of the world may move forward.
0:59.7	The course of history can be altered.
1:02.6	Humanity has been shaped by moments in which one person approached a crowd with something
1:07.5	important to say.
1:09.2	To those waiting with vated breaths for that favor of media catchphrase that you turn,
1:15.6	I have only one thing to say.
1:18.6	You turn if you want to, the ladies not for turning.
1:25.6	I'm John Nietzsche.
1:35.4	And this is It Was Said, Season 2.
1:38.5	A creation and production of C-13 originals, a cadence 13 studio and association with
1:45.1	the History Channel.
1:47.0	Join us as we take you through another 10 historic and timeless speeches which still resonate
1:52.4	today and will for generations to come.
1:56.9	December 7, 1941.
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