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In government and politics, inauguration is the process of swearing a person into office and thus making that person the incumbent. Such an inauguration commonly occurs through a formal ceremony or special event, which may also include an inaugural address by the new official .
While much of the Northern press largely praised Lincoln's inaugural address, the new Confederacy mainly responded with silence. The Charleston Mercury was an exception: it excoriated Lincoln's address as manifesting "insolence" and "brutality," and attacked the Union government as 'a mobocratic empire.' [ 4 ] The speech also did not impress ...
William McKinley requested the change in 1897, so that he could reiterate the words of the oath at the close of his first inaugural address. [citation needed] William Henry Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address, at 8,445 words, in 1841. John Adams' 1797 address, which totaled 2,308 words, contained the longest sentence, at 737 words ...
With his inauguration, a second speech in the Capitol — in which he called one critic “a crying lunatic” and another “guilty as hell” — and a flurry of executive orders, the first day ...
Ronald Reagan used his first inaugural address to attempt to revive America's confidence in the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the individual; to advocate a revival of self-government by ...
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.At a time when victory over secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery in all of the U.S. was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.
We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders but refuses to defend American borders, or, more importantly, its own people.
This was the first time a United States president acknowledged American non-believers in an inaugural address. [118] Obama's inaugural address received mixed reviews, with some describing the tone of the speech a praiseworthy one of restraint and plain speaking, [119] while others described the speech as low-brow and clichéd. [120]