Fellow-Citizens: There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the people, but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people, to whoseContinue reading “President Benjamin Harrison’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1889*”
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President Grover Cleveland’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1885*
Fellow-Citizens: In the presence of this vast assemblage of my countrymen I am about to supplement and seal by the oath which I shall take the manifestation of the will of a great and free people. In the exercise of their power and right of self-government they have committed to one of their fellow-citizens aContinue reading “President Grover Cleveland’s Inaugural Address, March 4, 1885*”
President James A. Garfield’s Inaugural Address, march 4, 1881*
Fellow-Citizens: We stand to-day upon an eminence which overlooks a hundred years of national life–a century crowded with perils, but crowned with the triumphs of liberty and law. Before continuing the onward march let us pause on this height for a moment to strengthen our faith and renew our hope by a glance at theContinue reading “President James A. Garfield’s Inaugural Address, march 4, 1881*”
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