His approval ratings this week are the lowest ever plumbed by any president at the date of his inauguration.
"As to the UN, things will be different after Jan 20th," he tweeted, referring to the date of his inauguration.
That was enough for Mr. Bush to win a narrow re-election — despite the economy actually having shed jobs from four years earlier (as well as from the date of his inauguration in 2001).
If there was, in the Zapatista imagination, a date evoking a doomsday, it would have to be 1 January 1994, the date of the inauguration of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).
B. S. Yeddyurappa, once the state's chief minister, recently broke away from the B.J.P. to found another party and advanced the date of its inauguration from Dec. 10 to Dec. 9 because astrologers told him the later date was ominous.
Interestingly, Tatiana Proskouriakoff first discovered the inscription on the West Side of Altar Q that tells us the date of the inauguration of Yax Pasaj.
INAUGURATION DAY: The Constitution, as originally adopted, made no mention of a date to inaugurate the president.
A HISTORIC banner said to date from the inauguration of George Washington went for $262,500 at a Sotheby's auction on May 23, 10 times its estimate.
THE date of Hugo Chávez's inauguration for a third term as Venezuela's president has come and gone, and he remains in a hospital bed in Cuba.
With the inauguration date of President-elect Obama on January 20, the British long drawn-out goodbye to Iraq can finally proceed.
The precise date of Mr. Schwarzenegger's inauguration is uncertain, but election officials expect it to be sometime before Thanksgiving, after the results have been certified.
