Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly ... two years since the first inauguration of a ...

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.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for ... in his 2002 book “Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.” His address was “the prism through which he himself strained ...

A massive Abraham Lincoln auction, the most extensive sale of items from America's 16th president, yielded big prices Wednesday in Chicago. Several of the top-selling pieces in the 144-item auction ...

somewhat akin to the circumstances that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed the reins of the executive branch. Jefferson, in his first inaugural address in 1801 ...

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 ...