George H. W. Bush's 1989 Inauguration Speech

President George H.W. Bush, who would serve only one term, spoke in 1989 of a peaceful, prosperous time that could be made better. “For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn,” he said. “For in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.”