Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural took place in an atmosphere of crisis and foreboding, heightened by the armed troops that patrolled the streets and the Capitol grounds. South Carolina seceded from ...
Two weeks after Jefferson Davis was proclaimed president of the Confederacy, President Abraham Lincoln addressed the nation at his inauguration. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be ...
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The Bolduc Brief: A Call for Unity – Comparing Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address with Today’s Political Landscape
In the annals of American history, few speeches resonate as powerfully as President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, delivered on March 4, 1865. This address, given as the nation neared the ...
"The one hundredth anniversary reenactment of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration on the fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and sixty one"--Container. Cast: Narrated by Roger Mudd.
President Barack Obama used Abraham Lincoln’s and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Bibles at his swearing in ceremony in 2013, two presidents used a chair George Washington sat in at his inaugural and George ...
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Watch to see what he says and how he says it. Top inaugural speeches include John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. • Crowd reaction: Bush navigated the largest inaugural ...
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