The inaugural draft telecast, when it aired on ESPN2, a couple of days later, left no doubt about who is in control of the narrative.
At the top of the first page were the words "The Inaugural — Draft 2" and, in the corner, the initials "TCS" and the date "January 14 , 1961 — six days before Kennedy was sworn in.
The game featured over 100 players from the 2009 college football season, and prospects for the 2010 Draft of the professional National Football League NFLL), as well as for the United Football League's inaugural draft.
Before its inaugural draft in January, the league, which owns the teams, assigned three marquee players to each of the clubs, which began play on June 7.
Seattle Storm forward Tina Thompson, 38, the first pick in the inaugural W.N.B.A. draft in 1997, announced that she would retire after this season.
This is the latest phase of a life that has included a Massachusetts state basketball championship with her Amherst Regional High School team, going to the Final Four three consecutive years (1995-97) witherer Stanford team, and playing in the Women's National Basketball Association after being picked third over all by the Los Angeles Sparks in the inaugural W.N.B.A. draft.
In the first draft of his Inaugural Address, Washington remarked that, having no children of his own, he would never establish a dynasty — "the Divine providence hath not seen fit that my blood should be transmitted or my name perpetuated by the endearing though sometimes seducing, channel of personal offspring" — but this also assured Americans that no one was closer in his affections.
When Lincoln showed the first draft of his 1861 inaugural to William Seward, his chief rival for the Republican nomination and his designated secretary of state (yes, history does sometimes repeat itself), Seward returned it with a sheaf of corrections to almost every sentence ("Strike out the whole paragraph", "For 'treasonable' write 'revolutionary'") and a drastically changed ending.
Scott Milanovich, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, was selected by the Los Angeles Xtreme yesterday with the first pick in the inaugural XFL player draft.
Koufax was the final player chosen in the inaugural Israel Baseball League draft in April 2007.
His first draft of the Inaugural was far less conciliatory than the one he delivered.
