Trend In Second Inaugural Addresses: They're Not Very Good

NPR | Jan. 19, 2013 4:13 a.m.

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President Obama will deliver his second inaugural address from Monday. Baylor University Professor Martin Medhurst tells host Scott Simon that many second inaugural addresses don't live up to the promise of the first. But there is at least one shining exception.