They should look like Elle,' he told the New York Times, gravely explaining his idea apparently seized upon as he watched Clinton's inauguration to make politics appeal to the apolitical.
Armed with polling data that show a narrow majority of support for keeping the prison open and deep fear about the detainees, Republicans in Congress started laying plans even before the inauguration to make the debate over Guantánamo Bay a question of local community safety instead of one about national character and principles.
The swanky Mandarin Oriental Hotel, with its sweeping views of the National Mall, initially required inauguration guests to make reservations for four nights.
"He said he edited the inauguration photographs to make them look more symmetrical by cropping out the sky and cropping out the bottom where the crowd ended," investigators for the inspector general said, according to the documents obtained by the Guardian, adding, "He said he did so to show that there had been more of a crowd".
But this speech fulfilled his pre-inauguration promise to make a bold bid to restore American prestige with a direct public address in a Muslim capital.Will Mr Obama's rousing oratory bear fruit?
(Before Thursday's visit, Mr. Cuomo had been in Albany only twice since attending Governor Pataki's inauguration in 1995: to make a speech to a librarians' group, and to testify in a friend's lawsuit. He made this latest trip only at the insistence of local booksellers and his publisher).
During a long trip planned for the months after his inauguration, he intended to make major speeches promoting this plan, culminating in a visit and address at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on June 13.
"It was about the president and the inauguration, and I wanted to make him and my country proud, so I decided to sing along with my pre-recorded track, which is very common in the music industry.
Police had kept an eye on what demonstrators had planned that day, sending an undercover officer into a planning meeting where an organizer said their goal was to "make inauguration a giant clusterfuck".
In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
The official Trump-inauguration photos were edited to make the crowd size look bigger, according to a new report.
