Speeches of Inaugurations Past
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Before Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 inaugural speech was broadcast via radio, inaugurals were usually only read in the newspaper. We look at inaugural speeches of the past, how they’ve evolved, and what tends to make a speech successful or not. Jill Lepore’s article in the Jan. 12, 2009 New Yorker"The Speech."
