Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F.

In his first inaugural in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt moved out of campaign mode and acknowledged the constraints on his “leadership of frankness and vigor.” He pledged to rely on his ...

Roosevelt was inaugurated as president of the ... leaders to Capitol Hill to take the oath of office and deliver an inaugural address before throngs of people. The new president then leads a ...

McKinley was sworn into his second term a few months before his death, leaving Roosevelt power for almost four years. President Theodore Roosevelt gives his inaugural address to the nation in 1905 ...

1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural (1933). All are well worth reading. Jefferson did an astonishing job in his first ...

FDR had the Great Depression ... is the speech that encapsulates his importance," he said. In fact, Trump's first inaugural address is not typically remembered for its content, but rather its ...

Most people can recall one line from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." It wasn't the best line in the speech. Toward the end ...

Unlike the much-scrutinized style choices of recent decades, all of the inaugural ones that were made by Roosevelt, who served as first lady between 1933 and 1945, are not readily accessible online.