The Constitution went into effect on this date in 1789.
Birthdays today:
Patricia Heaton of ”Everybody Loves Raymond” is 50.
Sonny and Cher’s daughter Chastity is 39.
Famed bridge expert Charles Goren was born on March 4th in 1901.
Legendary Notre Dame player and football coach Knute Rockne was born on this date in 1888. He died in a plane crash at age 43 in 1931.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.
At The Edge of the American West, ari discusses America’s greatest speech.
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
From the First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933.
Hear FDR speak the first part of the famous line.
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