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  • 21James Monroe: Second Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Monday, March 5, 1821       I shall not attempt to describe the grateful emotions which the new and very distinguished proof of the confidence of my fellow citizens, evinced by my reelection to this high trust, has excited… …

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  • 22Gettysburg Address — prop. n. The popular name of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a ceremony to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetary for soldiers who died… …

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  • 23Gettysburg Address — the notable short speech made by President Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa. * * * (Nov. 19, 1863) Speech by Pres. Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., for… …

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  • 24Benjamin 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 …

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  • 25Andrew 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… …

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  • 26William McKinley: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Thursday, March 4, 1897       In obedience to the will of the people, and in their presence, by the authority vested in me by this oath, I assume the arduous and responsible duties of President of the United States, relying …

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  • 27James Monroe: First Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Tuesday, March 4, 1817       I should be destitute of feeling if I was not deeply affected by the strong proof which my fellow citizens have given me of their confidence in calling me to the high office whose functions I am …

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  • 28James K. Polk: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Tuesday, March 4, 1845       Without solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. I am deeply impressed with… …

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  • 29Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farewell Address — ▪ Primary Source       A new Eisenhower seemed to emerge during 1959 and 1960, when the President, at last in health, and acting without the advisers Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and… …

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  • 30Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Saturday, March 4, 1865       At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course… …

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