Presidential Inauguration

Now This Was an Inauguration

A conspiracy theorist might say that Chief Justice John Roberts, perhaps George W. Bush’s most conservative and most lasting contribution to American life, was trying to psyche out Barack Obama by intentionally mangling the syntax of the oath of office as he administered it to the new president.

But when Roberts fed him Read More

By Steve Kornacki 4:12am

Obama’s Chance to Do What Lincoln Couldn’t

Measured by the impact of the language and imagery employed, Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural speech in 1865—"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right …"—stands as the most powerful of the 55 delivered between the founding of the republic and the eve Read More

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Now This Was an Inauguration

Obama’s Chance to Do What Lincoln Couldn’t

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