WHEN President Barack Obama gives his second inaugural address
outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday, the road ahead for him and his
presidency is no less challenging. Battles with Republicans loom over
federal spending, taxes, the government’s debt limit, gun control and
immigration.
But in this inauguration speech, Obama will be fighting history, former presidential speechwriters and historians say.
Second-term inaugural addresses rarely carry the drama and excitement that accompanied the first, they said.
Throughout U.S. history, second-term inaugurations largely have been
forgotten, a period of transition lacking the charge that comes with a
new president.
In Washington, city officials are expecting up to 800,000 people to come to Obama’s second inauguration.
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