19 Jan 2005 FDR’s Sparse Fourth Inaugural

Dittos on what Squaring the Boston Globe says about FDR’s fourth inaugural, and Bush’s second.

Harry includes a link to and comments about FDR’s fourth inaugural address (“[it] would choke any Democrat who tried to give it today”). Agree. There’s something else I noticed, re-reading it. It reads like something someone says when he knows he’s dying.