Under the Twentieth Amendment (which was ratified in 1933 and moved the Inauguration date from March to January), Obama was already President when Roberts administered the oath at a few minutes after the hour.
Let's convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan . 20to Thanksgiving Day.
If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan . 20to Thanksgiving Day.
Inauguration planners were expected to decide Saturday morning whether to move the swearing-in ceremony indoors.
The authorities were at first frightened, but then saw the meekness of the boundless hinterlands and calmed down, moving ahead to the inauguration.
Shortly after the election, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, said he didn't have any advice to offer Trump on this issue, and that he'd wait to hear what Trump had to say "as we move towards Inauguration Day".
I know they are considering the issue that you raise, and we'll hear what they recommend as we move towards Inauguration Day".
She also performed at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009 and famously moved the 44th president to tears during a performance in 2015.
Nevertheless, the move coincided with the inauguration of President Obama, who has pledged to remove some of the financing restrictions placed on the field by President George W. Bush.
Hoover was right that the long transition period was a problem, one remedied by the Twentieth Amendment, which was ratified the following month and moved future Inaugurations to the January after the election.
Moving on, you can follow the inauguration right from your computer using things like Twitter.
