Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F.

The second inauguration of Ronald Reagan on Jan. 20, 1985, was forced indoors due to intense cold. As USA TODAY noted that day, "The USA's 50th inauguration today moves indoors – a victim of ...

the outdoor swearing-in at his first inaugural set a precedent that with few exceptions has been followed by elected presidents since. While Franklin D. Roosevelt continued the tradition of an outdoor ...

As the Great Depression deepened in early 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address offered hope to the disillusioned nation. “This great Nation,” he assured the American people ...

1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural (1933). All are well worth reading. Jefferson did an astonishing job in his first ...

Love him or hate him, Trump’s political comeback and the fury of executive action in his first 100 days in office makes him ...

FDR had the Great Depression ... is the speech that encapsulates his importance," he said. In fact, Trump's first inaugural address is not typically remembered for its content, but rather its ...

Unlike the much-scrutinized style choices of recent decades, all of the inaugural ones that were made by Roosevelt, who served as first lady between 1933 and 1945, are not readily accessible online.