Jimmy Carter, 1977: Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, a Holocaust survivor, accompanied by the U.S. Marine Band sang the national ...
Roosevelt on the campaign trail. Sinatra would also endorse John F. Kennedy’s campaign in 1960. While celebrities have often been critiqued for getting involved in political discourse in ways ...
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered remarks at Rice University, where he discussed the need for America to become “the world’s greatest space-faring nation.” Just seven years later ...
Here’s a list of some singers at previous presidential inaugurations: John F Kennedy, 1961: Contralto Marian Anderson sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965: The United ...