Tag: Lincoln Memorial

• Friday, July 5th 2019 - 13:39 UTC

  Trump pays tribute to the Armed Forces with a speech from the Lincoln Memorial

  

  With tanks on display and jets flying overhead, President Donald Trump praised the military and urged young people to join the armed forces on Thursday in a celebration of Independence Day that critics said the president had politicized.

• Thursday, July 4th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  Trump's Fourth of July parade with tanks and fighter planes turns controversial

  

  United States military armored vehicles stood near Washington's majestic Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed ahead with an elaborate Fourth of July production with him at the centre, as critics accused him of hijacking a non-partisan celebration of America's Independence Day.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 01:42 UTC

  Obama honours 50 anniversary of March on Washington and the ‘I have a dream’ speech

  

  Addressing hundreds of thousands of people commemorating on Wednesday the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for civil rights, US President Barack Obama underlined the “unfinished business” in the struggle for equality and justice in America