Presidential Tag Cloud
This is very cool. I was just scanning through the transcript of one of the twitteresque chats that were happening during my sessions in Maine. Someone, Amy, suggested a web site that offers tag clouds for major presidential speeches, mostly inaugural addresses.
The URL is http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/. The interface is not very intuitive. There’s a bar above default speech, 
George Bush’s Jan 2007 State of the Union Address. You’ll find a scroll tool at the far right of the bar. Grab it and drag it back to the left to scan through other addresses, going back to “Foundation of Government,” Jan 15, 1776, by John Adams.
It’s kind of interesting to see references and prominence of education. In the image to the right, Thomas Jefferson evidently made many references to education when he called for a Bill of Rights for the Constitution.
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