James Whitmore lived to see his endorsed candidate for president inaugurated into office just a few weeks before his death.
Coronation, ceremony whereby a sovereign is inaugurated into office by receiving upon his or her head the crown, which is the chief symbol of regal authority.
This is a state of exception, but far from being a period outside the norm where standard rights do not apply, it presents a chance for a lack of rights to be properly inaugurated into the law once the exception, the Olympics, is over.
"Three years is an eternity in politics," said Christopher Higgins, a 27-year-old Democrat who was inaugurated into the Albany County Legislature on Tuesday afternoon.
In 1987, Goffin and King were inaugurated into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and three years later they were admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
With the exception of an annual birthday dinner that might be spent at the Mesa Grill or the now-closed Chanterelle, restaurants, for those of us newly inaugurated into adulthood, were not ends in themselves but rather places to go to pass the time before heading to the parties where you would lose all sense of it.
This year Mr. Waits was inaugurated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where he told the black-tie music-business crowd, "They say I have no hits and I'm difficult to work with, and they say that like it's a bad thing".
One of the monks told me that I had arrived at a very auspicious time: after years of searching, the reincarnation of a legendary Buddhist master, or lama, had been found, and he was currently being inaugurated into his new role at Mahabodhi.
Asked if Ms Boaden ever met Jimmy Savile, she said: "Yes, that was the Radio Academy lunch where Jimmy Savile was inaugurated into their hall of fame.
Chris Brown, chief executive of the regional side, the Newport Gwent Dragons, told BBC Wales: "Just as recently as March we had the inaugural dinner of the Newport rugby hall of fame and, in fact, the first person that was inaugurated into the hall of fame was Arthur Gould.
