To the extent we remember these ceremonies, it is usually because of the speeches. Everyone recalls John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, with its stirring call to service over selfishness ...
Kennedy’s inaugural address. Lincoln’s first inaugural address ... became known as the Greatest Generation. And of course, JFK’s famous inaugural, in which he urged Americans, “Ask not ...
by the better angels of our nature." Presidents usually use their inaugural address to remind Americans of the nation’s past, particularly the nation’s founding and the most recent past that ...
For 236 years, ever since George Washington, a newly elected president’s inaugural address usually aimed to unify the country. Until Donald Trump, that is. The safe bet is that the man who shows ...