Detect the tone of an era

These key phrases of the past 10 presidential inaguration speeches might help with your portrait paper: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28703864/ :

1. Truman to 1952 (WWII over): the aim for our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.
2. Ike to 1960 (prosperity of the 50s-but arms race on in "military complex") we sense with all our faculties forces of good and evil are masked and armed and opposed as never before in history
3. Kennedy to 1962 (unbeknownst to us, going into the unknown) "ask not what your society can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
4. LBJohnson to 1968 (civil disorder and moving away from "the 50s") "I do not see the 'Great Society' to be a battalion of the ants! I see the 'Great Society' as always becoming, trying, reaching, probing, finding, failing, and trying again."
5. Nixon resigns in 1974 (unsafe world - deep in Cold War with USSR - China rising): we will have succeeded if "we helped make the world safe for mankind." Ford missing.
6. Carter to 1980 (even more unsafe world): we must "move toward our goal - the elimination of all nuclear weapons from earth."
7. Reagan to 1988 (methodology: smaller government, more states/local rights. 1987 "tear down this wall.") "Government doesn't fix the problem; government is the problem."
8. Bush1 to 1992 (methodology? demise of 'meaning'? "Kinder-gentler" "1,000 points of light.)) "Make kinder the face of the nation, gentler ...."
9. Clinton to 2000 (cold war officially "over" - methodology? get it clear? communication?) let's "define what it means to be an American."
10. Bush2 to 2008 (again a very unsafe world - new awareness of global interdependence) "Our freedom depends upon the freedom of all nations, other people."