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Biden Inaugural Confronts the Jan. 6 Riot Head-On, Calls for an End to “This Uncivil War”

by Richard Tofel Jan. 20

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t’s become a ProPublica tradition for its president, Richard Tofel, who wrote a book on President Kennedy’s inaugural address, to offer an instant analysis of such speeches. Here are his thoughts for today.

If President Joe Biden’s inaugural address was drafted more than two weeks ago, it was certainly rewritten after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Biden’s setting of the scene as “our winter of peril and significant possibilities” may have been the speech’s original theme, but its more stark call for an end to “this uncivil war” was surely more recent.

Read more at: https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-inaugural-confronts-the-jan-6-riot-head-on-calls-for-an-end-to-this-uncivil-war?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=feature

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