Jan 20, 2009
Inaugural Highlights
The Britannica Blog gathers top moments and quotes from past presidential inaugurations.
Let’s hope, unlike William Henry Harrison, Obama wears a jacket.
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Jan 20, 2009
The Britannica Blog gathers top moments and quotes from past presidential inaugurations.
Let’s hope, unlike William Henry Harrison, Obama wears a jacket.
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seriously, it’s pretty cold for DC. Nothing compared to where you live, however! But.. my daughter and some of her college friends are in DC today and we had the “wear a hat” argument before she left! hahah! I lost that battle…and oh by the way… I just saw Obama enter St. John’s church.. he was wearing a coat! :)
Millions of mothers are vindicated by Harrison. Obama can vindicate more by cleaning his plate while sending aid to kids in Africa.
I was chuckling all morning while Charlie Gibson kept seeing the guests arrive and he would announce: A HAT! or NO HAT! lol.
It was a great morning. GOrock Obama.
OK, maybe our language has degraded on the popular tongue.
People laughed at this????
However, our eighth president, Martin Van Buren inadvertently made the audience laugh when he said, “Unlike all who have preceded me, the [American] Revolution that gave us existence as one people was achieved at the period of my birth; and whilst I contemplate with grateful reverence that memorable event….” Van Buren meant that he revered the American Revolution, but to the audience it sounded as if he revered his own birth.