He talked of a new Manifest Destiny and a “Golden Age." He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. An honor guard appeared with tricorn hats, fifes and drums — all traditional Revolutionary War iconography. Those in attendance heard tunes deployed from the classic American songbook — from Scott Joplin's “The Entertainer” to Woody Guthrie's “This Land is Your Land.”
At the inauguration Monday, American history in its varied stripes was firmly planted. "We will not forget our country," President Donald Trump said.
