Here’s a full transcript of President Obama’s second inaugural address, delivered on Jan. 21, 2013 . MORE COVERAGE: The Grid: Obama takes oath | A lighter crowd than four years ago | Obama ...

President Obama's inaugural address is weighted with expectation and promise. Jan. 20, 2009— -- Barack Obama has now inherited the burdens of the presidency. Early in his inaugural address ...

2009-01-21T07:58:33-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/084/283502-03-m.jpgEdith Childs, participating by phone, gave her impressions of President Obama’s ...

WASHINGTON — Allowing that “our journey is not complete,” President Obama offered a robust liberal vision of America in his second inaugural address, embracing gay rights, action on climate ...

"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real," President Obama said today in his inaugural speech. "They are serious, and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span ...

Last week, Tobar wrote about the lessons Obama might draw from previous inaugural speeches; we’ll talk about how we thought he did, and also discuss Richard Blanco’s commemorative poem.

But if Obama is looking to give the greatest second inaugural address in history, he still faces a high bar: Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Lincoln's second inaugural followed the pattern of echoing the ...

President Obama will take the podium for the second and final inaugural speech of his life. But in crafting a speech inevitably meant for the history books -- or potentially on the base of an ...

While emphasizing the nation’s strengths despite its economic travails, Obama echoes one of the central themes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, arguing that the country ...

President Obama's inauguration speech on Monday, Jan. 21, touched upon a number of heavy-hitting topics, including gender equality, gay marriage, guns, immigration, and the economy, but the ...