https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/20/joe-biden-inauguration-speech-effective-460931
Save stories to read later or create you own news web site to share with anyone
Notify me when I can create my custom news board
We will not share your email addressAlready on AllSides? Log In
AllSides members can bookmark any article and read it later. Save this article by becoming a member today!
Join AllSides to read, share and understand all perspectives of today's news and issues.
Learn more »AllSides members can instantly post news stories to their own personal page, making it easy to share and discuss information they care about. Become your own publisher by becoming a member today! Learn about My Front Page.
Join AllSides to read, share and understand all perspectives of today's news and issues.
Learn more »
No one expects soaring oratorical peaks from President Joe Biden. That’s not his natural style.
Yet his inaugural address was a powerful statement because it showed him grappling forthrightly — in the plainspoken language that reflects his authentic voice — with one of the most vexing questions of human relations: How does one restore respect when there are very good reasons to feel contempt?
Nearly everyone faces that challenge, at moments, in daily private life. Now it is the central question in the nation’s public life.
Biden’s words will not...
