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Build Your Own Inaugural Address
Build Your Own Inaugural Address
Presidents often tackle the same themes in Inaugural Addresses — what would you say?
For each of the five questions below, choose an excerpt from a past address.
Presidents often tackle the same themes in Inaugural Addresses — what would you say?
For each of the five questions below, choose an excerpt from a past address.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/16/us/politics/inaugural-address-builder.html?smid=fb-nytimes
Mine combined Clinton, Reagan, FDR, Obama, and Jefferson
“When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world.”
“The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are.”
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.”
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.”
“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.”
“The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are.”
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.”
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.”
“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.”
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