by KYW’s John Ostapkovich
The nation's next inaugural address will be delivered in January and although we don't know whose words will go down in history, there's a new book about those that already have.
Fellow Citizens, the Penguin Book of US Presidential Inaugural Addresses, is of course largely the work of the many presidents and their writers. But historians Terry Golway and Robert Remini (Remini is the official historian of the US House) put the glowing words into the context of their times.
Some you've heard of. Others, not so much:
"If it's been forgotten there's a good reason. But the ones that are remembered are remembered for good reason. I think historians are conscious of the kinds of statements that can really ring and resonate with the American public and they quote them."
Remini says Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR and JFK had some of the best.
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