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First Inaugural Address In the City of New York Thursday, April 30, 1789 The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the ...
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Full transcript as prepared for delivery of President
Barack Obama's inaugural remarks on Jan. 20, 2009, at
the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you ...
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FULL TRANSCRIPT: President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address President
Barack Obama Delivers Inaugural Address at US Capitol in
Washington, D.C. Jan. 20, 2009 Full transcript as prepared for delivery of President Barack Obama's inaugural remarks on ...
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TRANSCRIPT: Obama's Inaugural Address
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Tomgram: Prelude to an Inaugural
TomDispatch —
... In fact, the very first inaugural address -- George Washington's in New York City on April 30, 1789 -- began with a personal apology. In a fashion inconceivable in a country no longer known for acknowledging its faults, our first president, in his very first words, apologized to Congress for his own unworthiness to assume the highest office in the new country he had helped to found. "On the other hand," he said, "the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a ...
Tom Engelhardt: The Apology: How to Turn Over a New Inaugural Leaf
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In fact, the very first inaugural address -- George Washington's in New York City on April 30, 1789 -- began with a personal apology. In a fashion inconceivable in a country no longer known for acknowledging its faults, our first president, in his very first words, apologized to Congress for his own unworthiness to assume the highest office in the new country he had helped to found. "On the other hand," he said, "the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a ...
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