Published on Friday, January 21, 2005 by the Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
The Empire of Vulgarity
by Mike Carlton
In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt opened his fourth-term speech with the "wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words brief". He spoke for a couple of eloquent minutes, then went off to a light lunch, his wartime victory almost complete as well.
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