Despite these connections, let’s hope that Obama’s inaugural meal does not duplicate Lincoln’s first, which turned into a food fight. Lincoln’s inaugural committee had planned a lavish ...

From Martha Washington, the inaugural First Lady of the United States to ... fashion during the inauguration ceremonies. Mary Todd Lincoln Wife of former President Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd ...

Some say it takes a backseat to his second inaugural address, but Abraham Lincoln's first was a long-ish, pensive study of how a president can uphold the Constitution when the issue of slavery so ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Sam Waterston read Lincoln's First Inaugural Speech. Historian Susan Schulten discussed how this speech was received in the country and how ...

It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have in succession ...

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.

Lincoln’s was a mere 701 words ... Ritchie noted that he gave only two speeches during his presidency: his first and second inaugural addresses. In the second, aside from venting at the press ...

The Inaugural Ball hasn't always been a must-see event for First Ladies ... up the embroidered floral accents in the dress Mary Todd Lincoln wore for her husband's inauguration.

he contrasted his second inaugural with his first, given shortly before the war began — as listeners four years prior understood was likely. As he spoke when he first became president, Lincoln ...

have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first uttered them in 1861. Not all inaugural addresses achieve greatness. Some have been quite forgettable. But each of them has ...

At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first ... While the inaugural address was being delivered ...