Gallery Update: UN Peacekeeping Mission in Africa

I’ve added photos from George’s United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Africa. George visited the area during the month of January.

Darfur UNAMID Visit (Jan 19)

Democratic Republic of the Congo UNAMID Visit (Jan 25th)

George recognized for his UN Security Council Address on Darfur

One of America’s Leading Speech Experts Releases ‘The 10 Greatest American Speakers and Their Speeches of 2006′ Timed With President George W. Bush’s Speech on the Status of the War in Iraq

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Following one of the most important speeches of George Bush’s presidency, public speaking expert Richard Greene today released his first annual list of the ten greatest speakers and their speeches of 2006. According to Greene, the speeches of the past year were a release valve for the tensions of 2006, fueled by an increasingly unpopular war, resistance to the most solid political monopoly seen in decades, and the most contentious midterm election in recent history. 2006 also fueled the oratorical rise of a number of new and fascinating personalities. Greene’s criteria for greatest speeches of 2006 included whether the speaker and speech were inspiring, the courage the speaker took to deliver the speech and the artfulness of its delivery and content.

4. GEORGE CLOONEY, U.N. Security Council Address on Darfur “His Darfur speech is not a great speech, per se, but is remarkable in many respects. Despite his celebrity and dramatic skills he is not manipulative nor is he at all overly dramatic. He also does not pretend to be more of an expert than he is. He stays within himself and his very real and human concerns, sitting there because he is a celebrity but speaking simply and from his heart.” (Full Press Release)

This is not the first time George has been recognized in Dec of 2006 George Clooney’s Academy Award Acceptance Speech was listed as the Best Rhetorical Moments of 2006 by LeeAundra Temescu. View Dec 2006 Post