Eras: 1917–1929

1877–1917

Annual Message to Congress (1891)

Benjamin Harrison, “Benjamin Harrison Papers: Series 8, Speeches, 1878-1901; 1888, Oct. 2-1892, Dec. 6,” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Benjamin Harrrison, 1891, Benjamin Harrison Papers

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1877–1917

Annual Message to Congress (1889)

President’s Annual Message, 51st Cong., 1st sess., Congressional Record 21, p 1 S84. https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1889/12/03. To the Senate and House of Representatives: There are few transactions in the administration of the Government that

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1917–1929

Who is a Progressive?

Roosevelt, Theodore. “Who Is a Progressive?” The Outlook, April 13, 1912. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106012661507?urlappend=%3Bseq=841%3Bownerid=9007199271941056-847 In his recent speech at Philadelphia President Taft stated that he was a Progressive, and this raises the

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1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1929)

Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207571 My Countrymen: THIS occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred

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1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1921)

Warren G. Harding, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206688 WHEN one surveys the world about him after the great storm, noting

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1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1917)

Woodrow Wilson, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207579 The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place

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Election of 1912
1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1909)

William Howard Taft, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207216 My Fellow-Citizens: ANYONE who has taken the oath I have just taken

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1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1905)

Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206052 MY fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than

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