After going through a good amount of the lists of the most common inaugural words, there was one aspect that stood out to me. The earliest inaugural addresses contain words such as "government", "people", "country", "citizen", and "right". These addresses generally do not contain words such as "war" and "economy". These presidents seemed to focus more on the people and their role in the country rather than on the more political and economic aspects of the nation.
The more recent presidents used words such as "nation", "work", "world", "America", "American", and "responsibility". Based on these words alone, these presidents chose to focus on America's responsibility to the world, rather than to its own people.
The other thing that I noticed was how the inaugural speeches of presidents who were elected two or more times differed. Generally, the president had one word that was well used in each of his speeches, but the rest changed. These presidents also seemed to use the same word a smaller amount of times in his second or later speech, which makes me think that they assumed people already knew them, so that didn't have to give as much of an inaugural address.
This website was a very unique tool to use because it allowed us to analyze speeches without having to read the actual speech itself. Going by the most used words was interesting because it basically gave you a one or two word description of the president and his goals for his term.
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