What are the best/worst presidential inaugural addresses?
Best: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural ("with malice toward none") and FDR's 1st ("nothing to fear but fear itself")
Worst: James Buchanan ("slavery" is not the issue) and Donald Trump ("carnage")
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Best: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural ("with malice toward none") and FDR's 1st ("nothing to fear but fear itself")
Worst: James Buchanan ("slavery" is not the issue) and Donald Trump ("carnage")
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865): ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=…
James Buchanan inaugural (1857): millercenter.org/the-presidency…
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1st inaugural (1933): avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/f…
Donald J. Trump's inaugural (2017):
whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
James Buchanan inaugural (1857): millercenter.org/the-presidency…
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1st inaugural (1933): avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/f…
Donald J. Trump's inaugural (2017):
whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…
Most beautiful passage of any inaugural address (and very apropos).
Lincoln's closing paragraph in his 1st inaugural (1861):
"The mystic chords of memory...will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Lincoln's closing paragraph in his 1st inaugural (1861):
"The mystic chords of memory...will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Most overrated (but nonetheless inspirational) inaugural addresses:
John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural ("ask not what you can for your country...") Link: avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/k…
Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural address ("government is the problem") Link: avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/r…
John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural ("ask not what you can for your country...") Link: avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/k…
Ronald Reagan's 1981 inaugural address ("government is the problem") Link: avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/r…
Link to Abraham Lincoln's 1st inaugural address: avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/l…
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Most significant presidential inaugural address for US political norms is Thomas Jefferson 1st Inaugural Address from 1801 ("But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle...").
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/j…
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/j…
Notably, Lincoln's first address failed in its effect; Lincoln's 2nd inaugural contributed to the rehabilitation of traitors to the US constitution and Union.
Apropos, Lincoln's 2nd Second Inaugural Address (from Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln")
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