This year, Inauguration Day falls on Monday, Jan. 20. In honor of the day, you’ll find a collection of stirring Inauguration Day quotes spoken by U.S. presidents or poets during inaugurations dating ...

LET the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a ...

Kennedy’s inaugural address. Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all-out attempt to prevent civil war; it’s the one in which he coined the famous phrase about appealing “to the better ...

Kennedy’s, in 1961 ... let’s consider the criteria for a good inaugural address: The Brookings Institution’s Steve Hess, who was a young aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, gave the ...

Presidents usually use their inaugural address to remind Americans of the ... for the days ahead under his administration. John F. Kennedy, 1961: "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your ...

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 ...

John F. Kennedy concluded a famous line from his Inauguration Day address with what words? And in 2017, first lady Melania Trump turned heads with her sky-blue dress and matching gloves by which ...

Kennedy said in 1961 ... Most new presidents offer grace notes to the wider world. In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry Truman offered a promise of significant material aid to a war ...

Harry Truman became the first president to have his inauguration broadcast live that year. More than a decade later, John F. Kennedy had his address broadcast in color for the estimated 500,000 ...

Johnson was sworn in by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes on Air Force One, just hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The plane ...

Kennedy’s, in 1961 ... let’s consider the criteria for a good inaugural address: The Brookings Institution’s Steve Hess, who was a young aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, gave the ...