David Frum : Most inaugural speeches are full of rhetoric , lack real inspiration . He says they try to promise great things but are vague on specific commitments . There are noble ideals that are undermined by lack of accomplishment , he says . Frum : It has given new inspiration to the power of self-help in both races by making labor more honorable to the one and more necessary to the other . We remember great speeches of Lincoln , FDR because of their great ##ness .
David Frum : Most inaugural speeches are full of rhetoric , lack real inspiration . He says they try to promise great things but are vague on specific commitments . There are noble ideals that are undermined by lack of accomplishment , he says . Frum : We remember great speeches of Lincoln , FDR because of their great ##ness .