A retired Ripon College political scientist says while most people don’t remember inauguration speeches, specific lines can and have had a lasting impact. “Franklin Roosevelt’s “All we have to fear is fear itself is one of the most important. John F. Kennedy, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country,” political scientist Marty Farrell told WFDL news. Farrell says president Joe Biden was trying to set a tone for changing the page with his inauguration speech. Farrell says Biden takes the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherits a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors.
