“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection,” as Abraham Lincoln said in his first inaugural address. “We are not enemies, but friends.” Here at Gettysburg ...
EXPLAINS WHY THE OUTAGE WAS NEEDED. PARTS OF LINCOLN SQUARE IN DOWNTOWN GETTYSBURG HAD NO POWER FOR FOUR HOURS FRIDAY. MET-ED WAS UPGRADING A MAJOR POWER LINE TO CARRY HIGHER VOLTAGE. BUSINESSES ...
Once the home of local attorney David Wills, this building is where Lincoln finalized his famous "Gettysburg Address." This room and the bedroom where the president stayed during his visit are ...
Estimates of the number of men engaged at Gettysburg vary widely. Figures for the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia range from a low of about 65,000 men of all arms to a high of about 75,000, ...
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States Monday at an intimate inauguration ceremony inside the Rotunda of the Capitol.
No phrase in Donald Trump’s second Inaugural Address distilled his distemper ... delivered in the Capitol Rotunda as they were in the speech he made after taking the oath of office eight years ...
This portion of his speech sounds similar to Trump at one of his rallies: listing American achievements, putting himself at the top. One subject was notably absent from Trump’s address ...
President Trump promised a "common sense revolution" and "new era of national success" in his second inaugural address.
On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison delivered what is the longest inaugural address in United States history, both in terms of its word count and length of time. His speech consisted of a who ...
The remarks — which teetered between a campaign rally speech and a partisan State of the Union-like address — focused less on a unification message and more on rebuking Biden's administration ...
The speech, which was moved inside because of the weather, was a relatively subdued affair by Trump’s standards. But it carried many of the same dark themes of his 2017 address, and Trump ...