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Work #314 · Mid (the inauguration after twelve years of Republican presidency)

First Inaugural Address

William J. Clinton
January 20, 1993 · English
Inaugural address · American "New Democrat" political tradition

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America" — Clinton's 1993 inaugural address, the New Democrat synthesis

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Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

First Inaugural Address

The post-Cold War historical-political time; the generational transition Clinton represented.

Space

First Inaugural Address

The American political space; the broader post-Cold War global space.

Matter

First Inaugural Address

Embodied American citizens; the political-economic realities of the early 1990s.

Observer

First Inaugural Address

The American citizen-electorate; Clinton as the centrist-political voice.

Energy

First Inaugural Address

The political-rhetorical energies of the inaugural moment; the broader energies of post-Cold War political reorganisation.

Information

First Inaugural Address

The American political tradition of centrist-liberal politics preserved through Clinton's articulation.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

First Inaugural Address

Clinton's presidency mixed substantial policy successes with personal-political crises. The impeachment (1998-99) over the Lewinsky scandal was the central political crisis. Subsequent Democratic political development has variously preserved or moved beyond the New Democrat centrist synthesis Clinton embodied.