The deeds of US presidents can change the world; their words last forever.
When Donald Trump is sworn in once again next Monday, he will become the first US president to deliver non-consecutive inaugural addresses since Grover Cleveland in 1893. Cleveland was elected in 1884, lost after one term as did Trump, then was elected again in 1892. Trump and Cleveland are the only two men to have achieved that most remarkable comeback.
In a manner of speaking, Donald Trump could take some pointers from his predecessors Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Franklin D. Roosevelt.The inaugural address is, along with the State of the Union, one of two great set-piece occasions on the American political calendar. It is not specifically required by the Constitution, but every president since George Washington has delivered one. Franklin D.
Every inaugural is important – as a statement of values, a declaration of intent, an appraisal of America’s challenges, sometimes a critique of the status quo – though it is not always the speech that defines a presidency.
John F Kennedy, speaking from the very same place in 1963, delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech: “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’.” Kennedy’s Berlin Wall speech did not change the world, as Reagan’s did.
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