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101Dwight D. Eisenhower: Second Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, January 21, 1957 THE PRICE OF PEACE Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Speaker, members of my family and friends, my countrymen, and the friends of my country, wherever they may be …
102James A. Garfield: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Friday, March 4, 1881 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… …
103Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Thursday, March 4, 1869 Your suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity to the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. I have… …
104Ulysses S. Grant: Second Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Tuesday, March 4, 1873 Under Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation. It has been my endeavor in the past to maintain all the laws, and, so far as lay in my power, to act …
105Benjamin Harrison: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 4, 1889 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 …
106Rutherford B. Hayes: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 5, 1877 We have assembled to repeat the public ceremonial, begun by Washington, observed by all my predecessors, and now a time honored custom, which marks the commencement of a new term of the… …
107Herbert Hoover: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 4, 1929 This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which can be assumed by an American citizen. It is a dedication and consecration under God to the highest office in service… …
108Andrew Jackson: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Wednesday, March 4, 1829 About to undertake the arduous duties that I have been appointed to perform by the choice of a free people, I avail myself of this customary and solemn occasion to express the gratitude which… …
109Andrew Jackson: Second Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Monday, March 4, 1833 The will of the American people, expressed through their unsolicited suffrages, calls me before you to pass through the solemnities preparatory to taking upon myself the duties of President of… …
110Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source Wednesday, March 4, 1801 Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled to express my… …
