This footage shows crowds of mourners at Roosevelt’s grave, including his wife and President Truman giving speeches.

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...

Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles revisits the inaugural messages of Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Such speeches strive to reach beyond the immediate situation ... But each of them has tried to fulfill these expectations, ...

John F. Kennedy inspired Americans with the words, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your ...

Eleanor Roosevelt posing in the Sally Milgrim gown that she wore to her husband Franklin’s second inaugural festivities in ...

Such speeches strive to reach beyond the immediate ... helping to sustain what Franklin Roosevelt in his second inaugural called “our covenant with ourselves.” (Except for the headline ...

Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day! I thought it would be a good time to find some ...

Donald Trump will be only the second U.S. president after Grover Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive terms after he takes ...

Such speeches strive to reach beyond the immediate ... helping to sustain what Franklin Roosevelt in his second inaugural called "our covenant with ourselves." Claire Jerry is political history ...

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.

Few addresses could rival the tragic tale of William Henry Harrison. “Tippecanoe” Harrison was elected the 9th president of ...