This article is an installment in an 11-part series on the inaugurations of incumbent presidents who were elected to additional terms in office, culminating in an on-the-ground report of Obama’s second inauguration.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 20, 1937) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (January 20, 1941)

Roosevelt (1937)

While Lincoln’s second inaugural may be the greatest of such speeches ever delivered, Roosevelt’s second inaugural gives it a run for its money.

This article is an installment in an 11-part series on the inaugurations of incumbent presidents who were elected to additional terms in office, culminating in an on-the-ground report of Obama’s second inauguration.

Woodrow Wilson (March 4, 1917) and Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925):

Wilson:

Rarely has a president so directly defied the ideological basis of his own reelection than Woodrow Wilson did in 1917.

This article is an installment in an eleven-part series on the inaugurations of incumbent presidents who were elected to additional terms in office, culminating in an on-the-ground report of Obama’s second inauguration.

William McKinley (March 4, 1901) and Theodore Roosevelt (March 4, 1905)

McKinley:

The presidential election of 1900 had been a clear-cut referendum on the question of whether America should pursue an imperialist foreign policy.

This article is an installment in an eleven-part series on the inaugurations of incumbent presidents who were elected to additional terms in office, culminating in an on-the-ground report of Obama’s second inauguration.

Ulysses S. Grant (March 4, 1873) and Grover Cleveland (March 4, 1893): 

Grant:

Just as Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural was the greatest ever delivered by a president, so too was Ulysses Grant’s the worst one.

Andrew Jackson (March 4, 1833) and Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1865):

This article is an installment in an eleven-part series on the inaugurations of incumbent presidents who were elected to additional terms in office, culminating in an on-the-ground report of Obama’s second inauguration.

Jackson:

In the summer of 1832, President Andrew Jackson declared war on the Second Bank of the United States … and in so doing declared the terms of that year’s presidential campaign.