The best inaugural addresses of presidents past can be reduced to a single phrase or line: "With malice toward none, with charity for all …" (Lincoln); "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" (Roosevelt); "Ask not what your country can do for you …" (Kennedy).
Barack Obama's second inaugural may not be as enduring as those classics. But it will enter the history books for one line, perhaps even just one word: "Stonewall".
Read Jason Farago's complete commentary on the significance of Obama's defense of LGBT people on Monday.
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