[billorites]

"The title tells me that Ted Widmer has too much time on his hands."

He read all fifty-four inaugural addresses so that we don't have to.

Actually, I think it's a pretty good piece on the subject. I particularly agree with his thoughts about Lincoln whose prose remains among the best ever written in English.

[Tax-chick]

Okay, it is a good article. I suppose I could read five hundred pages of Presidential speeches if I got to do it all by myself in a historic library :-).