White Jr. wrote in his 2002 book “Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.” His address was “the prism through which he himself strained to see the light of God.” Lincoln ...

to walk to the Lincoln Memorial. It sits at one end of the National Mall with the Capitol at the other; had Donald Trump opted to deliver his second inaugural address from the west front of that ...

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.

Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address is considered by many to be the best speech ever given by an American president, even greater than his Gettysburg Address. At what Lincoln called "this ...