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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address

Michael — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:48 +0000

On March 4th, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address, which is considered one of the most important speech of the 20th century (rank 3 in the Top 100 in the list compiled by Professors Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst).

You can find a better quality audio version as well as a transcript at AmericanRhetoric.com.

Jon Stewart: Changefest ’09 – Obama’s Inaugural Speech

Michael — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:37:32 +0000

Obama’s inauguration address was one of the most anticipated speeches, so today I want to point out one of the numerous opinions about that speech: The Daily Show’s analysis.

Andrew Dlugan compiled a list of opinions about the speech.

Barack Obama: Inauguration Speech

Michael — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:19:43 +0000

For the few that haven’t seen the inauguration speech yet:

Filepedia provides an audio file of the inauguration speech
On AYCWorldNews you can find a transcript.

John F. Kennedy: Inaugural address

Michael — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:55:26 +0000

Tomorrow is the big day for Barack Obama. And I found multiple inauguration addresses of past presidents for you.

LiveScience published the full inaugural adresses of the following presidents: