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	Inauguration Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inauguration Day is the day on which the President of the United States is sworn in and takes office.
		However, in 1973, the celebrations marking Richard Nixon's second inauguration ended just two days after he was inaugurated because of the four days that marked the death and state funeral of Lyndon Johnson.
		Due to his religious beliefs, Zachary Taylor refused to be inaugurated, even in a private ceremony, on March 4 in 1849, a Sunday.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inauguration_Day (549 words)

	Online NewsHour: Inauguration 2001
		During his second inauguration, Washington received his oath from William Cushing, an associate justice of the Supreme Court who was the first in a long line of members of the court to perform the ceremony.
		Inauguration Day was originally set for March 4, giving electors from each state nearly four months after Election Day to cast their ballots for president.
		In 1933, the day of inauguration was changed by constitutional amendment from March 4 to Jan. 20 to speed the changeover of administrations.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/inauguration/history.html (1070 words)

	Today in History: March 4
		In a stirring inaugural address, delivered under the watchful guard of riflemen, Lincoln appealed for the preservation of the Union, threatened by the recent secession of seven Southern states opposed to the new leader's policy against the expansion of slavery.
		Consequently, the first inauguration was postponed to allow the president-elect time to make the long trip from his home in Virginia to the nation's capital in New York City.
		Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items which represent each inauguration, from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/mar04.html (1447 words)

	USATODAY.com - Inauguration Day: An old script with modern touches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It will be the 55th quadrennial presidential inauguration, an event steeped in history and marked by all the pomp and pageantry with which Americans have come to associate the oath-taking ceremony.
		The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is responsible for all that transpires at the Capitol.
		Nine official inaugural balls are planned for Bush's inauguration, including the first commander in chief's ball for some 2,000 men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-01-01-inauguration-day_x.htm (1327 words)

	US President plans ceremony fit for a king
		An inauguration is this nation's equivalent of a coronation, a four-yearly, utterly American mix of reverent idealism, crass commercialism, noisy protest and ruthless networking.
		Some inaugural addresses have been memorable; Lincoln's second in 1865 as the Civil War was ending ("with malice towards none, with charity for all") is regarded as the greatest of all.
		At the first inauguration of a president, in 1789, George Washington wanted to wear a suit covered in gold leaf with a special cape, and ride to the ceremony on a white horse escorted by an honour guard on white horses.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/inauguration_king_bush.htm (4778 words)

	washingtonpost.com - Presidential Inauguration Guide 2005
		All across town, bars and restaurants are getting in on inaugural fever, adding chipotle sauce to their barbecue or jalapeno peppers to their drinks or calling their offerings Texan.
		For Inauguration 2005, the vision thing is easy, but the viewing thing is much trickier.
		Learn about historic inaugurations, admire First Ladies' gowns, and see George Washington's inaugural address and the bible he swore upon.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/artsandliving/seasonal/inauguralguide (322 words)

	UNF Presidential Inauguration Week
		UNF Board of Trustees Chair Carol Thompson officially inaugurates John Delaney as the fifth permanent president of the University of North Florida during ceremonies Friday, February 20, 2004 in the UNF Fine Arts Center.
		The inauguration Friday of John Delaney as the University of North Florida's fifth permanent president was the climax of a week-long, campus celebration which included concerts, luncheons, receptions, art exhibits and a Distinguished Voices lecture.
		In his inauguration address, Delaney said to build on UNF's legacy he will turn to the four guiding principles of UNF's Board of Trustees: a commitment to excellence; a commitment to focus; a commitment to relevance; and a commitment to accountability.
	www.unf.edu /unfinfo/president/inaugural/welcome.htm (374 words)

	Wheaton College: Norton, MA: Presidential Inauguration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		More than a thousand guests—academic delegates, faculty, staff, students, alumnae and alumni, parents, family and friends—streamed into the Beard field house on April 16 to celebrate the inauguration of Ronald A. Crutcher as Wheaton's seventh president.
		In his inaugural address, President Crutcher spoke of the importance of character and community in his own life and in the life of a college.
		The inauguration ceremony is available for viewing via archived webcast.
	www.wheatonma.edu /inauguration (92 words)

	Inauguration Facts
		William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera.
		William Taft's wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House.
		Except for Washington's first inaugural, when he was sworn in on April 30, 1789, all presidents until 1937 were inaugurated in March in an effort to avoid bad weather.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/inauguralincident.html (599 words)

	Duke University \| Presidential Inauguration
		The threat of downpours and strong winds prompted inauguration organizers on Wednesday to announce that the main ceremony would be the first of its kind to be held in Duke Chapel.
		Slaughter, who was working his third presidential inauguration on Saturday, said Brodhead's ceremony was perhaps the smoothest of all three.
		Inaugurations held on the chapel's courtyard on a glorious fall afternoon, such as those enjoyed by former Presidents H. Keith H. Brodie and Nannerl O. Keohane, are special, said University Marshal Richard White.
	www.duke.edu /inauguration/inauguration_inside_0904.html (586 words)

	CNN.com - Bush: Expand freedom 'in all the world' - Jan 20, 2005
		During the first wartime inauguration ceremony in decades, Bush indirectly referred to the Iraq war, saying that "because we have acted in the great liberating tradition of this nation, tens of millions have achieved their freedom.
		The Presidential Inaugural Committee has said putting on the inaugural events would cost about $40 million, which is being raised from private donors -- more than half of them corporations that gave as much as $250,000 each -- as well as sales of tickets and merchandise.
		During the inaugural parade, two officers and a third person suffered minor injuries, according to a spokesman for the police department.
	www.cnn.com /2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/bush.inauguration (1166 words)

	Inauguration Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Prior to this, Inauguration Day was held every four years on March 4th.
		If Inauguration Day falls on a Sunday, the President is usually sworn in privately on Sunday and again publicly on Monday when festivities are held.
		Since Thomas Jefferson's second inaugural on March 4, 1805, it has become tradition for the President to parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC from the Capitol to the White House.
	www.medicaliterature.com /Inauguration_Day.wik (153 words)

	The 1997 Inauguration
		Meanwhile, Inaugural planners checked their lists and made sure everything was in place for Monday's historic events.
		Inauguration Day, 1997, coincided with the national holiday commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		President Bill Clinton’s second Inaugural Address paid tribute to Dr. King’s legacy by calling on Americans of all races, cultures, religions, and backgrounds to heal divisions and to become one community to face the challenges ahead.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/Family/html/inauguration1997.html (728 words)

	INAUGURATION (Part 1) - The West Wing Episode Guide
		In the week before Bartlet's second inauguration, an escalating genocide in a remote African country prompts him to consider "a new doctrine for the use of force." (Toby terms it "Mother Theresa with first-strike capabilities.") Not surprisingly, this idea doesn't meet with universal approval, even in the West Wing.
		A situation in a thoroughly unimportant country on the other side of the world has the President and his staff re-writing his Inauguration address on the eve of his swearing-in as tensions between the White House and the Pentagon mount and the staff is stunned by the betrayal of one of their own.
		Meanwhile, tensions mount between the White House and the Pentagon, and the staff is stunned by a betrayal of one of their own.
	www.westwingepguide.com /S4/Episodes/81_INAUGURATION1.html (391 words)

	Bush's inauguration to reflect nation at war - George W. Bush: The Second Inaugural - MSNBC.com
		There will be a total of nine inaugural balls this year, a youth concert, a parade, a fireworks display and, the official swearing in ceremony at noon on Jan. 20.
		She served as Executive Director of the 2001 committee for George W. Bush and in 1989 for his father’s inauguration.
		One thing that the inauguration can never plan for though is the unpredictable weather in the mid-Atlantic city in the middle of January.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6717767 (925 words)

	CNN.com - Poll: Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider - Jan 19, 2005
		Bush's inauguration was viewed by 69 percent, more than two-thirds of respondents, as a celebration by the winning presidential candidate's supporters rather than a celebration of democracy by all Americans, as 29 percent saw it.
		Forty-five percent said the inauguration should be held just as in other years, and 1 percent had no opinion.
		Sixty-one percent of respondents said they believe protests during the inaugural celebration would be inappropriate, regardless of whether they believed people had a right to protest.
	www.cnn.com /2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/poll (480 words)

	NYC inauguration coverage
		On Wednesday, Oct. 15, fresh from his first inaugural ceremony Oct. 12 at Weill Cornell's new Middle East campus in Qatar, Lehman spoke to an audience of medical college students, faculty, friends and distinguished guests about interdisciplinary international collaborations to further the medical and the life sciences.
		His inaugural address, in the college's Uris Auditorium, was the culmination of a symposium that earlier featured a talk by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci, who warned that microorganisms evolve and collaborate across borders, even if humans sometimes don't.
		The take-home message from Fauci's keynote address for the inaugural symposium was: "Get your flu shot this year." In his talk, "Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in the 21st Century," he pointed out that humans and pathogenic microorganisms have been co-evolving and trying to outwit one another for millennia.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/03/10.23.03/inaug_NYC-Fauci.html (832 words)

	Administration, D.C. clash over inauguration funding=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1981, the district has received “presidential inaugural” payments, which have gradually increased from $1.3 million in 1981 to close to $6 million for each of the past three inaugurations.
		Norton said she intended to speak to congressional appropriators to secure inaugural funding in an omnibus spending bill that could be passed this week.
		Sharon Gang, spokeswoman for D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, said the mayor’s office did request $10 million to cover inaugural expenses from the OMB earlier this year, adding that the request was denied because of the existence of the D.C. Public Safety Fund.
	www.thehill.com /news/111604/inauguration.aspx (618 words)

	CNN StudentNews
		The inauguration of a United States president is both a demonstration of the living Constitution and a time-honored national tradition.
		Point out to students that the inauguration ceremony is a politically significant event; it highlights the peaceful transfer of power from one national leader to another.
		Inauguration, oath of office, 20th Amendment, executive branch, "lame duck," transfer of power, "honeymoon period," presidential cabinet
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2005/fyi/01/06/special.inauguration.day (740 words)

	USATODAY.com - A wartime inauguration with an expensive peacetime tilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Exuberant inaugural festivities are part of a longstanding American political tradition.
		The Bush inauguration is a parade of contradictions.
		If this year's inauguration follows the script of four years ago, the private-jet terminals at Washington's airports will be overwhelmed, particularly on Sunday, when corporate executives head home after schmoozing with regulators and lawmakers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2005-01-17-wartime-inaugural_x.htm (557 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Reformation
		The Reformation was inaugurated in Germany when Luther affixed his celebrated theses to the doors of the church at Wittenberg, 31 October, 1517.
		Geneva, with its academy inaugurated by Calvin, was a leading centre of the Reformation and affected principally France.
		By the zealous inauguration of true ecclesiastical reform, the diligent activity of the papal legates and able bishops, and the labours of the Jesuits, further progress of the Reformation was prevented.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12700b.htm (10530 words)

	Public Citizen \| Press Room - Lobbyists Join Corporate America in “Soft Money” Funding of the Bush Inauguration
		An analysis of the latest figures also reveals that corporations and their executives are continuing their unprecedented financing of the inauguration by contributing $24 million, or 96 percent, of the $24.9 million collected so far.
		The inaugural committee raised $40 million in 2001, with a $100,000 self-imposed cap on contributions.
		Clinton’s 1997 inaugural raised $23.7 million with a $100 self-imposed cap, but did so in the context of heavy criticism of his 1996 campaign fundraising.
	www.citizen.org /pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1860 (634 words)

	Inaugural 2005 home
		The Presidential Oath of Office was administered to George W. Bush by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States The Honorable William H. Rehnquist
		In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on a mission to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
		Inaugural themes are incorporated into the official Inaugural program, Inaugural Luncheon menu and dï¿½cor.
	inaugural.senate.gov /2005/index.cfm (353 words)

	Wartime inauguration not scaled back
		WASHINGTON -- At the height of World War II in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt opted for a low-key inauguration for the start of his fourth term, with a simple swearing-in, a brief speech from the South Portico of the White House to a small crowd and a modest luncheon.
		On tap are nine official balls, a youth concert, a parade, a fireworks display and, of course, Bush's second swearing-in ceremony and speech at noon on Jan. 20.
		There will be a commander in chief's ball, with some 2,000 free tickets to be given to servicemembers who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families.
	www.suntimes.com /output/elect/cst-nws-inaug16.html (230 words)

	The Beaufort Gazette: Inauguration
		Thousands of people in dozens of cities across the nation walked out of work and school, held mock coronations, intoned the names of the Iraq war dead and held candlelight vigils to show their disapproval of President Bush as he was sworn in for his second term.
		President Bush's inaugural address contained 2,000 words of passion and promise for his second term, but no direct mention of the war that could sink it.
		WASHINGTON (SH) - Inaugural security precautions may be at a new height, but protecting presidents from real or symbolic threats has been part of the ritual since 1789, when members of the Continental Army escorted George Washington to his swearing-in ceremony at Federal Hall in New York City.
	www.beaufortgazette.com /24hour/politics/inauguration (2572 words)

	Atheist unable to block Bush inauguration blessing
		But the judge ruled that there was no major difference between seeing the event live or on TV and that Newdow had failed to show that the harm he might suffer was reason enough for the court to take the extraordinary step of barring prayers at the ceremony.
		He attended St. Paul's Chapel after his first inauguration, and a prayer was read in the Senate chambers at his second swearing-in in 1793.
		Christian groups argued that Newdow's efforts to outlaw prayer at the inauguration showed he was intolerant of the views of millions of Americans who are religious.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/15/MNGMGAQR5P1.DTL (847 words)

	DC Government’s Resident Resource Center: Inauguration Day 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		More law enforcement will be on hand for this inauguration than any other in American history.
		Inaugural events also are listed on the citywide calendar.
		If you're not attending but are still in the spirit, make a point to visit one of the timely presidential exhibits at the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the National Museum of American History.
	rrc.dc.gov /rrc/cwp/view.asp?a=1182&q=457229&PM=1 (442 words)

	AlterNet: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartless
		When it comes to inaugural excess, the numbers speak for themselves.
		$10,000: Price of an inaugural package at the Fairmont Hotel, which includes a Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon reception, a chauffeured Rolls Royce and two actors posing as "faux" Secret Service agents, complete with fl sunglasses and cufflink walkie-talkies.
		1,160,000: Number of girls who could be sent to school for a year in Afghanistan with the amount of money lavished on the inauguration.
	www.alternet.org /story/21038 (518 words)

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