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Note: Since leaders have made countless addresses of this kind throughout history, please do not list [[Real Life]] examples.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** This is later followed by his "We will not go quietly into the night" speech once the aliens plans are revealed.
* In ''[[Superman II (Film)|Superman II]]'', the President of the United States delivers an announcement abdicating authority to General Zod, though at the end he pleads for help from Superman.
* ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]'': This is parodied in the President's address to the U.S. after the Martians destroy Congress in which he assures the public that a "very real response" will be coming "soon."
* ''[[Armageddon]]'': The President delivers an address before the team is launched, wishing them luck in their mission to destroy the asteroid.
* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' film ''In The Beginning'', the president of Earth gives a sobering [[Do Not Go Gentle]] speech in which she pleads for combat-worthy ships to sacrifice themselves by holding the line in face of an imminent Minbari invasion, while the evacuation of civilians is underway.
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== Literature ==
* Played with in ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Duty Calls]]'', in which the governor's speech [[Epic Fail|is a complete failure]] ([[Is This Thing On?|and not even rehearsed]]), demonstrating just how out-of-it the governor is (and with a name like Merkin [[George W Bush|W. Pismire the Younger]], take a wild guess [[Take That|who he's supposed to be...]]).
* Done in Stephen King's [[The Stand]], where the president can't even get through his speech without starting to cough like crazy, even as he's telling everyone there's nothing to fear and a vaccine is coming.
* The ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' book "The Absolute" has the governor giving a speech at the end, telling the country about the Yeerks. (Few believe it, though, because she's soon taken away and said to be insane.)
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