Organizers have been preparing for as many as two million people at the inauguration of the first African-American president.
Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder are among the stars who will sing at an inauguration kickoff at the Lincoln Memorial, the Presidential Inaugural Committee said on Monday.
The inauguration was set to resemble a coronation.
So the fact that Obama was selected so soon after his inauguration is totally irrelevant.
And if 2009 sees the inauguration of a greener President, he or she will now have the power to dictate stricter fuel efficiency, in the form of lower CO2 emissions, without reference to Congress.
His inauguration speech was a veiled warning not to take his campaign hype at face value.
The Democratic defeat was widely interpreted as repudiation by independent voters of many of Mr Obama’s policies, one day before the first anniversary of his inauguration. See article
Kennedy's inauguration was a singular moment of hope for the country.
Clinton arrived to attend the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai.
Sitting behind the desk at the Oval Office at 8.35am after a late night of inauguration balls, he set about trying to live up to the daunting expectations for his presidency both at home and abroad.
The rain stopped before the inauguration, though temperatures stayed in the 40s.
On March fourth, eighteen sixty-nine, Ulysses Grant traveled to Washington for his inauguration as the eighteenth President of the United States.
New South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was making diplomatic inroads within hours of Monday's inauguration ceremony.
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