LET the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a ...

Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles revisits the inaugural messages of Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on Trump's inauguration day.

A silk copy of William Henry Harrison’s 1841 inaugural address, the longest in history ... In 1961, John Kennedy challenged Americans across the decades to “Ask not what your country can ...

Johnson was sworn in by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes on Air Force One, just hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The plane ...

Kennedy’s inaugural address. Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all-out attempt to prevent civil war; it’s the one in which he coined the famous phrase about appealing “to the better ...

Kennedy’s, in 1961 ... let’s consider the criteria for a good inaugural address: The Brookings Institution’s Steve Hess, who was a young aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, gave the ...

It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who said in his 1932 inaugural speech, "The greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself." In 1961, John F. Kennedy famously said "Ask not what your country can ...

Kennedy said in 1961 ... Most new presidents offer grace notes to the wider world. In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry Truman offered a promise of significant material aid to a war ...