Inaugural
"The swearing-in ceremony represents both national renewal and continuity of leadership."
- Roosevelt's Fireside Chat on The Banking Crisis
- The First Presidential Inauguration Broadcast on Radio
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. Read the full text of his inaugural address here, or listen to it below. We have also included some historic presidential radio broadcasts below.
FDR’s first radio “fireside chat” calms the nation during depression era banking crisis.
The date was March 12, 1933 and the nation
was in the midst of The Great Depression. People had lost confidence in the banking
system and were going to their banks to withdraw all their money for fear of losing it.
See President Roosevelt deliver the first of his famous "Fireside Chat" radio addresses,
which he used to explain in plain English the problems the nation was facing
and what the government was doing to solve them.
Calvin Coolidge: the first Inauguration to be broadcast on radio.
For more than two hundred years America's citizens have witnessed the Inauguration ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States. From the first Inauguration of George Washington (1789 in New York City) to today the swearing-in ceremony represents both national renewal and continuity of leadership.
On March 4, 1925 Calvin Coolidge's inauguration marks an important date in history because it was the first ever broadcast on radio.
