LAD #29: Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy designed to contain Communism by giving Greece and Turkey economic aid. This would help both countries and try and keep them out of the Soviet sphere. He asked for a $400 million dollar aid in order to help these countries; Truman said the U.S. must help "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." Truman set out in writing and delivering this doctrine because no other country was willing to stand up and fight against Communism, so that it would not spread to the Soviet Union's neighbors, especially. He wrote this as if it were the responsibility of the entire nation, in order to preserve the freedoms that we had fought so hard for in the past. He ended this doctrine with four sentences that were intended to motivate the country to stand behind Truman and believe that his ideas for intervention were worthwhile: "The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms.
If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world - and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation.
Great responsibilities have been placed upon us by the swift movement of events.
I am confident that the Congress will face these responsibilities squarely."

LAD #28: FDR's First Inaugural Address
FDR began his inaugural address with a brief statement on fear, and stated how there is nothing to fear but fear itself, and he relieved the crowd, saying how in these critical days, he asked for nothing but their full support. He describes in full detail for a couple paragraphs on the problems that the United States was facing at that time. Wrapping that topic up, FDR said, "Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now," as a inspiring way to make sure the nation knows that action must be implemented. He then goes on to explain the answers to those problems, and announces his plans for the New Deal. FDR's primary task was to put the people to work, to cure the unemployment rates that were skyrocketing during that time, and he also states the need for a solid currency. The upcoming president ended his inaugural address with an inspiring and uplifting quote, "We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it."

LAD #27: Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the city where it was signed on August 27, 1928, was an international treaty "providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy." It failed in its purpose but was significant for later developments in international law. It was named after the American secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand, who drafted the pact. Sixty-two nations ultimately signed the pact, some including, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The 1927 Kellogg-Briand Pact was concluded outside the League of Nations and remains a binding treaty under international law. In the United States it remains in force as part of the supreme positive law, under Article Six of the United States Constitution.

LAD #26: Schenk v. United States
Schenck v. United States in 1919 was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the question of whether the defendant possessed a First Amendment right to free speech against the draft during World War I. The defendant, Charles Shenck, a Socialist, circulated a flyer to recently drafted men. The flyer, which cited the Thirteenth Amendment provision against "involuntary servitude," exhorted the men to "assert their opposition to the draft," which it described as a moral wrong. The circulars proposed peaceful resistance, such as petitioning to repeal the Conscription Act. Schenck was charged with conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act by attempting to cause insubordination in the military and to obstruct recruitment. The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr., held that Schenck's criminal conviction was constitutional. The First Amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination, since, "when a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right." In other words, the court held, the circumstances of wartime permit greater restrictions on free speech than would be allowable during peacetime. This goes along with the saying "shouting fire in a crowded theatre," a misquotation of Holmes's view that "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." In the end, Schenck was found guilty and was sent to prison by a 9-0 decision.