The Big Speech

by digby

As we prepare for the big speech on Tuesday, I thought it would be fun to watch some previous inaugural speeches, just to have something to compare it to. Most of them are much better than that shockingly bad one of Bush's in 2004. Some are great pieces of oratory that last through the ages.

Here's one for us baby boomers, most of whom were too young to have known what was happening at the time, but who grew up with it as the defining inauguration address of our time:




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