inaugural address

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  What Was Missing from Trump’s Inaugural Address?

  by John Fea

  A sense of history.

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  1-13-17 (accessed)
  

  How will Trump’s inaugural address compare with others?

  These are the ones that required a high reading level.

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• Obama’s Inaugural and the Danger of an Iran War

  by Juan Cole

  President Obama, Air Force chief of staff General Mark A. Welsh III, and Vice President Joe Biden talk during the inauguration. Credit: Flickr/DoD.Originally posted on Informed Comment.President Obama addressed the big issues of war and peace in his inaugural address, and despite the vagueness of some of his pronouncements, they contain strong clues to his foreign policy agenda in the Middle East. His announced policy will be one of ending U.S. military engagements abroad, multilateral cooperation with allies to face security challenges, negotiation, and avoidance of further military entanglements in the Middle East. In other words, Syrians are on their own, France can have Mali, and Iran is probably not going to be bombed.

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• Obama's Second Inaugural Loaded with History

  by Ian Reifowitz

  Barack Obama at his inauguration. Credit: Flickr/afagen.Barack Obama has always had a keen sense of history, both how to make it and to talk about it. He consistently offers an inclusive, unifying narrative of our country’s past that helps explain his conception of our national identity. We can see this clearly in his second inaugural address.