Warren G Harding's Innaugarual Address

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This is President Warren G Harding 's innaugarual address, on March 4th 1921. It is addressed to the public of the United States and the nation as a whole. This document has been largely critized as one of the worst innaguaral addresses, simply because it is overly wordy, doesn 't say much, and mainly dances around issues instead of directly addressing them. This quote from a New Yorker article does a good job of putting a large public opinion about this document into words. "...The problem doesn’t lie in the length of their sentences or the number of their syllables. It lies in the absence of precision, the paucity of ideas, and the evasion of every species of argument." It is important to understand this document because it is the address

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