| Civic Engagement
Published By:Pekin Times
Published By:Pekin Times
Knight: ‘My fellow Americans...’ Se fuerte!
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 was the first U.S. President to use the phrase “my fellow Americans”in an Inauguration speech, according to historian Andrew Bergen, but over the years the catch phrase suggesting all of us being together, like a family, became so common that it lost its impact, if not meaning.