edward everett was. he spoke for two hours. don't worry. i'm not speaking for two hours today. if you can imagine linking getting up after a two-hour oratory, 287 words in less than two minutes and it's so short a photographer could not take his picture. today it's one of the ones we remember. the second inaugural to me is really heart wrenching. i want to talk to you about it because we are right here. but if you can imagine, the first inaugural, the capitol dome was have finished. the first inaugural, have finished, scaffolding up on the capital. and at that time decided to continue with the destruction. not.uld we would be here. the second inaugural, all but assured the north would win. the dome was finished. he comes out. a cloudy day like today. a little overcast. the story goes that he comes out. as lincoln approached the podium the clouds actually broke and the sun shines. it must have been incredibly moving if you were there. he talks about a couple of things which i want us to think about. where we need to move for our next generation. he talks about let us judge not t

edward everett was who was a well-known orator. he spoke for two hours. don't worry, i'm not speaking for two hours today. but if you can imagine, lincoln getting up after a two-hour oratory saying 287 words in less than two minutes and so short the photographer couldn't take a picture. but today the gettysburg address is one of the ones that we remember. but the second inaugural, to me, is really heart wrenching, and i want to spend a moment talking about it. especially with us right here at the capitol. i think it's that way. the dome of the capitol was half finished, so the first inaugural there was a scaffolding up on the capitol, and at that time they decided to continue with the construction as a sign that the union would endure and we would not follow. we would be here. at the second inaugural it was all but assured the north would win, and the dome was finished. so he comes out, it's a cloudy day like today, a little overcast. and the story goes he comes out and as lincoln approached the podium, the clouds actually broke, and the sunshined on hip.