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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. 1989
Reference > Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents seal Executive Oath of Office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, ...
George W. Bush: Second Inaugural Address: U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
bartleby.com — We have seen our vulnerability—and we have seen its deepest source. For as long as whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny—prone to ideologies that feed hatred and excuse murder—violence will gather, and multiply in destructive ... (more) George W. Bush: Second Inaugural Address: U.S. Inaugural ...
Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
bartleby.com — First Inaugural Address In the Washington, D.C. Wednesday, March 4, 1801 Chief Justice John Marshall administered the first executive oath of office ever taken in the new federal city in the new Senate Chamber (now the Old Supreme Court Chamber) of ... (more) Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address. U.S. ...
George Washington: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
George Washington: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
bartleby.com — 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 ... (more) George Washington: First Inaugural Address. U.S. ...
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techPresident — ... made by mixing together our own brilliance with phrasings from the addresses from the 55 presidential inaugurations gone by. Slate will run the speech that is most highly rated by other Mixed Ink users. One hundred thirty five drafts have been submitted, and the top contributor of language thus far: some dude named Franklin Roosevelt. ...

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Weekly Standard Blog — ... Without making value judgments one way or another, one is struck by how backward-looking and partisan President Obama's inaugural speech was. All inaugurals are principally forward-looking (you can peruse the entire oeuvre here) and Obama's was no exception. But what was exceptional was that nearly every forward-looking optic in ...

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