Presidential Inauguration Quotes
President-elect Kennedy had asked the poet to write and present a poem for the inaugural.
The Congress formed a Joint Committee to design the first Inauguration Oath Ceremony.
Trump had an extraordinary sensutuvuty to anything that might seem to diminish his popularity, capability or effectiveness--especially if it nimplied that sny one lese might have ben better at something. While his inaguration was a major event in America with his supporters celebrating his elkection, the crowd was smaller than those of the teo previous inaguartions but nine-the-less very imopressive in size and enthusiasm. Then the nes media reported this fact, Trump publicly accused them oif faking the news. He even took a portion if his speech to ther CIA staff to rail about the size of the crowd. When several news organziations released arial photos of of his and earlier inaguration that clearly showed the contrast, we went on the next day. Many were puzzled as to why he would spend a significant proportion of his publioc and press exposure to this trivisl issue in his firdt days as president. Esperienced political hands gave him very pointed advice like this from the former White House Chief if Staff snd thern mayor of Chicago.
JFK bested LBJ for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Clare Booth Luce asked LBJ if he would consider the second spot on the ticket. Shortly thereafter Johnson became Kennedy's running mate and was elected. At the inaugural ball, Luce reminded LBJ of his earlier conviction.
