—United States Constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 8
It is traditional for the President to give a speech after he is sworn in on Inauguration Day. This is called an Inaugural Address. A Vice-President who becomes President upon the death or resignation of the President does not give an Inaugural Address. Hence, several American Presidents (such as John Tyler and Gerald Ford) are not on this list. Policy goals of the new President are often presented in the Inaugural Address. References to recent events are also noted. Both George W. Bush and Rutherford B. Hayes made references to the disputed elections that brought both to power during an Inaugural Address.
Full-text of Inaugural Addresses:
John Adams 1797
John Quincy Adams 1825
Martin Van Buren 1837
William Henry Harrison 1841
James Polk 1845
Zachary Taylor 1849
Franklin Pierce 1853
James Buchanan 1857
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877
James A. Garfield 1881
Benjamin Harrison 1889
Theodore Roosevelt 1905
William Howard Taft 1909
Warren G. Harding 1921
Calvin Coolidge 1925
Herbert Hoover 1929
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933, 1937, 1941, 1945
Harry S. Truman 1949
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953, 1957
John F. Kennedy 1961
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1965
Richard Milhous Nixon 1969, 1973
Jimmy Carter 1977
George Bush 1989