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"January 18, 2001 My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval O(...TRUNCATED) |
CORPUS 1A: A corpus of President Clinton's terrorism-related discourse, for a historical research project.
Period: January 20, 1997 (Clinton’s second term inauguration day) – January 20, 2001 (the day Clinton left office).
Search parameters: All documents on the American Presidency Project site within the above timeframe returned through a keyword search ‘terror*’ using the wildcard star to return all variants, terrorism, terrorist, etc. Results were further refined to only those associated with William J. Clinton’s name, so as to filter out Bush’s campaign speeches. Further refined by only those documents tagged as ‘spoken addresses or remarks,’ (to filter out noise from some policy papers, and bureaucratic writs and documents, focusing instead on the core, the heart of executive discourse, straight from his speechwriters at the heart of the west-wing). Also, for the sake of a coherent voice in the fine-tuning data.
Composition: a total of 388 records were returned. (including a range of spoken remarks from state of the union addresses, to remarks to various communities all around the US, to remarks to the press, remarks following discussions with foreign dignitaries, etc).
Here’s the link to these search results: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/advanced-search?field-keywords=terror%2A&field-keywords2=&field-keywords3=&from%5Bdate%5D=01-20-1997&to%5Bdate%5D=01-20-2001&person2=&items_per_page=100&f%5B0%5D=field_docs_person%3A200298&f%5B1%5D=field_docs_category%3A8
Word count pre-cleaning: 955,714
Word count post-cleaning: 958,876 (likely due to white-space normalisation as part of the cleaning process).
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