Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 second inaugural came in the waning days of the ... One appears on the speech’s first paragraph, which begins: “FELLOW COUNTRYMEN.” But examination of the last paragraph under ...

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 ...

“An inaugural address should focus on the ... president who took office in a bitterly divided nation: Abraham Lincoln, whose first inauguration was six weeks before the outbreak of the Civil ...

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 ...