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Humes
Presentations by James C. Humes
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We've listed summaries of some of James Humes' presentations. Here's a list of various talks he's available to give:

  1. “What Kind of Government Did You Give Us, Doctor Franklin?” – a one-man show on the life of Benjamin Franklin.
  2. “Lightning Strikes More than Twice” – the ideas and inventions of Benjamin Franklin.
  3. “Please Don’t Go to Gettysburg, Abe!”- an inside story of the Gettysburg Address by a biographer of Lincoln.
  4. “Tommy, Stop Your Daydreaming!” – the story of how eighteen year-olds like Thomas Edison, LaFayette, Joan of Arc and others overcome their parent’s doubts to change the world.
  5. “Never, Never, Never Drop Out!” – an inspiring talk shaped for Hispanic and minority high school students (which persuades teenagers to sign pledges to graduate from high school).
  6. “Meet Will Shakespeare” – an exciting one-man show that brings the Bard to life through excerpts from his plays.
  7. “Never Give Up!” – a one-man show on Winston Churchill by a Churchill biographer and friend of the Churchill family.
  8. Magna Charta, “the Grandfather of the Constitution” - an inspiring talk about the struggle that created the first document that said that no man, including the king, is above the law.
  9. “Confessions of a White House Ghost Writer” – a behind the scenes look by one who wrote for five presidents.
  10. “James, My Pappy Fought in the Revolution” – Humes’ account of his talk with a 100 year daughter of the American Revolution and her reminiscences.
  11. “Study History, Young Man, Study History!” – Humes’ meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1953.
  12. The Three “E’s” in Eisenhower – “The Test of Leadership” (‘Ego’, ‘Empathy’, ‘Eye’).
  13. Nixon’s Ten Commandments of Statecraft – Nixon, at his death, left to Humes a card with ten rules that he learned from men like Lincoln, Churchill, Franklin, MacArthur, Pericles, Disraeli and others and how he applied them to USSR, China and the Middle East.
  14. Presidents, Pooh Bear and Pandas – a talk for first graders on T.R. and Teddy Bear, Churchill and Winnie the Pooh and Nixon and the Panda Bears from China.
  15. “Goodbye America” – the inside story of George Washington’s farewell address which Alexander Hamilton Helped him write.
  16. “Keep Your Hands off the Americas” – a behind the scenes look of how Secretary of State John Quincy Adams wrote and persuaded President Monroe to deliver the Monroe Doctrine.
  17. “Marxism, the “Ash Heap” of History” – Reagan’s speech to the British parliament in 1982 and how he predicted and ended the Cold War.
  18. “The Iron Curtain” – the inside story of how Churchill drafted and shaped his famous address that warned of the rising Communist threat.
  19. “Don’t be Dropouts from Democracy!” – Humes’ inspiring address to high school students on the rights as well as duties as citizen stewards.
  20. “Which President Killed a Man and other Tantalizing Trivia and Fascinating Facts about our Chief Executives and First Ladies” – from Humes’ top selling book.
  21. “Jefferson Still Lives” – the fascinating ups and downs in the rivalry and friendship of Adams and Jefferson.
  22. “No Sunshine Patriots or Summer Soldiers” – the amazing Christmas Day crossing of the Delaware River that was the turning point in the Revolutionary War.

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