Today, we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of democracy.

The people, the will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been

heated.

We've learned again that democracy is precious.

Democracy is fragile.

With this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.

That was President Joe Biden reminding and showing the country that despite the attack

on the capital two short weeks ago by an angry mob trying to overturn an election, the

will of the people does still govern and our democratic institutions remain intact.

Things in our speech may not have had the lofty rhetoric or ringing phrases that have

marked some of those delivered by his predecessors, but it hit the right notes for a bitterly

divided and still anxious country.

He called for unity and civility, and even reached out to Trump supporters, promising

to fight just as hard for them as for those who backed him.

And of course, he pledged to mobilize the government, with speed and urgency, he said,

to fight the once-in-a-century pandemic that has cost more than 400,000 lives and wreaked

havoc on the country's economy.

How will Biden's speech be remembered?

We'll discuss with the man who may be more responsible than anybody for Biden's inauguration,

James Clyburn, newly dubbed the savior for his critical endorsement of Biden on the

eve of the South Carolina primary, an endorsement that turned the democratic primary race around.

And then we'll get the takes of two distinguished historians, H.W. Brands and Susan Eisenhower,

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