At this second appearing to take the oath of the ... All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at ... on the southern wall and his second inaugural address on the northern one. Lincoln gave that latter speech ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his ... peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Lincoln’s second inaugural address is one of the most consequential presidential speeches ...

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.

8. At Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865, Black men and women marched in the inaugural parade for the first time. 9. Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration was the largest attendance of any ...