Talk:Inauguration Day

Question.
Which presidents said "So help me"? Baloogan 10:54, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * None to my knowledge. The only US President to have not said "So help me God" was Franklin Pierce. GoodDay 19:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Bushes inauguration
Id also like to say that president bush's was the first to ever get protested... it just proves a fact..

Socom3ELITE 23:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it wasn't. Clinton's, Reagan's, and quite a few others were protested. Bush is not so outstandingly good or evil that people make a special case about him. GABaker 15:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Your statment 'proves' that the anti-bush crowd is insane 69.245.80.218 (talk) 11:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps a good thing for this article to show then is history of protests at inaugurations. At least for now, the throwing of eggs at Bush's first inauguration could be mentioned. Probably protests go back pretty far. Further than a lot of people think. -- Suso (talk) 12:40, 15 October 2008 (UTC)


 * It is very much worth exploring, because I'd agree that inaugural protests probably go much further back than Bush, Clinton, or Reagan, but we didn't have the media like we have it today to make it so prominent. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:17, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Removing "globalize" tag
This article is specifically about the "inauguration day" event in the United States, and adding material about other countries' inauguration events would make this article too large. The presence of the globalize tag would encourage tacking too much onto this particular title. Any globalizing should be done on a separate title. I have no problems with moving this entire article to Inauguration Day (United States) if (and only if) someone is going to develop an article about other countries' similar traditions on the Inauguration Day title. SchuminWeb (Talk) 20:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Swear vs. affirm
In working on List of United States Presidential religious affiliations, I've come across the question of which presidents affirmed rather than swore the oath of office. Sources are incredibly contradictory-- sometimes self-contradictory-- but as best I can determine, Franklin Pierce is the only president who affirmed; at least, I can find many sources that say he did, and none that say he didn't. In Herbert Hoover's case, it appears that many sources assume that he affirmed because he was a Quaker; but there are definite contemporary news sources which state positively that he did not. His inauguration was supposedly sound-recorded, but I have not found a trace of any such recording, and I've seen one site asserting that no such recording is available. (Richard Nixon, the only other Quaker, definitely swore rather than affirmed, and a YouTube video of DDE's inaugural shows him swearing rather than affirming the vice presidential oath.) Mangoe (talk) 02:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Legal Basis
Can anyone produce the actual text and codification of the legal statute which originally set the inauguration day on March 4? Thanks. Malveramenso (talk) 21:07, 22 June 2008 (UTC)


 * From what I can tell, it appears that it's based on when the Constitution took effect, on March 4, 1789. I know that it was the 20th that set it at January 20, but otherwise, I couldn't tell you re: March 4.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 22:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Broken links.
There is many broken links from the Senate website. We need to fix them and create new sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saberwolf116 (talk • contribs) 00:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Man, you people couldn't wait to insert "Barack Obama will be inaugurated" on Jan 20, 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.22.230 (talk) 06:23, 5 November 2008 (UTC)


 * No. This is not about any one individual's inauguration, but about the day and tradition itself.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:15, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

History
Is it really necessary to detail which entrances and exits were used for Lyndon Johnson's casket? I don't see how its relevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.196.122.36 (talk) 01:59, 9 November 2008 (UTC)