We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.- Barack Obama, from his inaugural address.
20 January 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, the 44th President of the United States of America
I will let a more eloquent man speak for me.
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But will the "roads and bridges" that 'we' build, have Eulerian paths?
I believe Barak Obama is the first US President who mentioned the word "statistics" in an Inaugural Address.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers."
There's the first time an inauguration speech awknowledged the atheists and agnostics. Hearing the word "science" in there was great too.
other Anonymous: Actually, Taft used the word in 1909: "The progress which the negro has made in the last fifty years, from slavery, when its statistics are reviewed, is marvelous..." although that's a rather different context.
We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.
What? Nothing with nuclear fission?
That doesn't count as "restoring science."
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