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  • 1.  List of public speeches from presidential candidates in 2016 campaign?

    Posted Oct 09, 2019 03:31 PM
    Hi all,

    I have a reference question that I am working on, and I am wondering if anyone might have a lead (even though this is not strictly a gov doc question). Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of public speeches by Bernie Sanders and/or Donald Trump during their 2016 presidential campaigns?

    A student is interested in getting the transcripts of these speeches, which may be impossible, so we would like to make a narrower set of parameters.  So far we have been able to find closed-captioned videos of many speeches from C-SPAN, although transcripts are not available. Also, I wouldn't think that the C-SPAN videos represent all the speeches from the candidates.

    I've tried the Internet Archive to look at older versions of the campaign websites, but I haven't been able to cull much info. It seems like we can find the info in bits and pieces, but I wanted to see if anyone had ideas!

    Thanks!
    Katie Lewis

    Katie Lewis
    Cataloging & Government Documents Librarian
    Gould Library, Carleton College
    507-222-5552
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  • 2.  RE: List of public speeches from presidential candidates in 2016 campaign?

    Posted Oct 10, 2019 06:18 PM
    If you have access to news databases, such as those from EBSCO, LexisNexis, and the like, you may be able to find some transcriptions, and even where those aren't available, you may be able to find some hints at sources for other speeches.  Tracking down those others may be prohibitively time-intensive, though. 

    I also tried just searching Bernie transcripts on Duck Duck Go, and got quite a few posted at a variety of locations.  That would probably work for Trump, too.

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    Alaska State Library
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