Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fourth Fireside Chat. Part of our Fireside Chat Project, you can see the others here.
Original text can be found at http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat4.html
Process notes: tag cloud created using wordle.net. United States changed to UnitedStates, $ or dollar changed to dollars, % or per cent changed to percent, and NRA changed to National Recovery Administration (mainly because modern readers might have identified it as National Rifle Association).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Third Fireside Chat. See the others here.
Process notes: worker changed to workers, employer changed to employers, principle changed to principles, planning or plans changed to plan, industrial or industries changed to industry, foundations changed to foundation, farmers or farming or farms changed to farm, employer changed to employers, efforts changed to effort, agreement changed to agreements.
Read the original text at http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat3.html.
Transcript from:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110500013_pf.html
Process notes: word cloud created by Wordle.net. Some phrases combined for improved frequency analysis: “Yes we can” changed to YesWeCan, “White House” changed to WhiteHouse.
This is the 2nd of thirty Fireside Chats Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave between March 12, 1933 and June 12, 1944. It is part of our FDR Fireside Chat project.
The text is unaltered, and was taken from this transcript:
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat2.html
Transcript taken from here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/debate-transcri.html
Compare, if you like, against Obama’s tag cloud from the second debate, or from the first.
Process notes: cloud generated by Wordle.net. In the complete transcript, the following groupings words were converted to single phrases for improved frequency analysis: full process notes can be found accompanying the tag cloud of all participants at the third debate.
Text remains unaltered. Original at http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/teddyrooseveltmuckrake.htm
Tag cloud generated by wordle.net.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/28/obama.transcript/index.html
Process notes: word cloud generated by Wordle.net. Combinations and other edits: George W. Bush or George Bush or Bush changed to GeorgeBush, Joe Biden changed to JoeBiden, vice president changed to vicepresident, John McCain or McCain changed to McCain, sister changed to sisters, brother changed to brothers, son changed to sons, health care changed to healthcare, terrorist or terrorists changed to terrorism, Republicans changed to Republican, Democrats or Democratic (note that it referenced the Democratic Party) changed to Democrat, Bill Clinton changed to BillClinton, Michelle Obama or Michelle changed to MichelleObama, Social Security changed to SocialSecurity, businesses changed to business, American changed to Americans, $ changed to USD, middle-class changed to middleclass, small-business changed to smallbusiness.
A space was added before each (NOUN)’s to ensure that possessives were not listed differently than the nouns that possess.
Tag cloud generated by wordle.net. Cloud generated from total field of language used by both candidates, Tom Brokaw, and the audience. Process notes and link to transcript can be seen on the tag cloud posted for either John McCain or Barack Obama. The only addition for this particular cloud is that the names of the individual participants (SenatorMcCain, SenatorObama and Tom) have been deleted.
Transcript text taken from http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/barack_obama_john_mccain_debat_1.html.
For comparison’s sake, here’s the tag cloud of Barack Obama at the first Presidential debate.
Process notes: Tag cloud generated by wordle.net. Combinations or substitutions made for clarity: Combinations or substitutions made for clarity: Senator McCain / Senator John McCain is now SenatorMcCain; Senator Obama / Senator Barack Obama is now SenatorObama; $ / dollars is now USD (so $700 billion is now USD700billion); Ronald Reagan / Reagan is now RonaldReagan; middle class / middle-class / middle-income is now middleclass; President Bush is now PresidentBush; United Nations / U.N. is now UnitedNations ; both George Bush and Bush are now GeorgeBush; e-mail is now email; sub-prime is now subprime; Secretary Paulson / Paulson are both now SecretaryPaulson; Fannie Mae / Fannie are both now FannieMae; Freddie Mac / Freddie are both now FreddieMac; Wall Street is now WallStreet; Main Street is now MainStreet; small businesses / small business / small-business are all now smallbusiness; banks is now banking; policies is now policy; Warren Buffett is now WarrenBuffett; town hall is now townhall; health care is now healthcare; 10 year is now 10years; mortgage has been combined with mortgages; United States / U.S. is now UnitedStates; policies has been combined with policy; Warren Buffett is now WarrenBuffett; next president is now nextpresident; Social Security is now SocialSecurity; republicans has been combined with republican; Joe Lieberman / Lieberman are both now JoeLieberman ; Russ Feingold is now RussFeingold; Ted Kennedy is now TedKennedy; terrorist has been combined with terrorists ; North Korea is now NorthKorea; United Nations is now UnitedNations; Israelis has been combined with Israel; Middle East is now MiddleEast; Russian / Russians are both now Russia; Chinese is now China; Iranians / Iranian have been combined with Iran; U.N. / United Nations are both now UnitedNations; Cold War is now ColdWar; Soviet Union is now SovietUnion; Pakistanis / Pakistani are both combined with Pakistan ; Afghans / Afghan are both combined with Afghanistan; Iraqis / Iraqi are both combined with Iraq; Vladimir Putin is now VladimirPutin; loan has been combined with loans; Osama Bin Laden / bin Laden are both OsamaBinLaden; Al Qaeda / Al Qaida are both now alQaeda; national security is now NationalSecurity; General Petraeus is now GeneralPetraeus; Teddy Roosevelt is now TeddyRoosevelt; health insurance is now HealthInsurance ; CEO has been combined with CEOs; New York is now NewYork; two years is now 2years; eight years is now 8years; 30 years is now 30years; seven years is now 7years; a year / one year are both now 1year; numbers were largely converted so, 6.8 billion is now 68000000000; Fortune 500 is now Fortune500; state and local governments is now stategovernment and localgovernment; domestic and foreign policy is now domesticpolicy and foreignpolicy; foreign policy is now foreignpolicy; thank you is now thankyou; economic / economics are both combined into economy; tax (but not taxed) has been combined with taxes.
For fairness purposes, these changes were implemented on the entire debate transcript (both candidates). Not all phrases altered in this fashion appear in the completed (150 word) tag cloud, and not all phrases were spoken by both candidates.
Tag cloud generated by Wordle.net.
We used the transcript available at http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/debate.transcript/
Some changes were made to the original transcript for clarity’s sake: First, apostrophes in posessives were replaced with spaces to ensure that posessives were not considered differently than the nouns. Second, in order to improve visualization of phrase frequency we made the following changes: Gov. changed to Governor, Sen. changed to Senator, Wall Street changed to WallStreet, Barack Obama changed to BarackObama, Main Street changed to MainStreet, Governor Palin changed to GovernorPalin, Senator McCain changed to SenatorMcCain, John McCain changed to JohnMcCain, Senator Biden changed to SenatorBiden, Bush Doctrine changed to BushDoctrine, George Bush / Bush (when not a part of BushDoctrine or BushAdministration) changed to GeorgeBush, middle class changed to middleclass, Fannie Mae changed to FannieMae, Freddie Mac changed to FreddieMac, small business(es) / small-business changed to smallbusiness, federal government changed to FederalGovernment, vice president / V.P. changed to vicepresident, understands changed to understand, terror / terrorists changed to terrorism, United States / U.S. changed to UnitedStates, North America changed to NorthAmerica, Al Qaeda changed to alQaeda, Gen. Petraeus / Petraeus changed to GeneralPetraeus, off-shore changed to offshore, two-state solution changed to Two-stateSolution, vice-presidency changed to vicepresidency, you know changed to youknow, White House changed to WhiteHouse, sub prime changed to subprime, health care changed to healthcare, Ronald Reagan / Reagan changed to RonaldReagan, No Child Left Behind changed to NoChildLeftBehind, American people changed to AmericanPeople, Exxon Mobil / Exxon Mobils changed to ExxonMobil, $ / dollar / dollars changed to USD
Not all of the terms combined in this manner were used frequently enough to appear among the 100 words depicted in the finished word cloud, and some of them were initially used by Biden and not by Palin and vice-versa.
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