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What will this "change" look like in a practical sense, the details are on the new white house website:
The Agenda
Inauguration Trivia
- Thomas Jefferson was the first sworn in in Washington.
- James Monroe in 1817 was the first to deliver his inaugural address outdoors.
- Van Buren in 1837 was the first sworn in who wasn't born a British subject.
- Polk's 1845 inauguration was the first covered by telegraph and the first illustration depicting it in a newspaper.
- James Buchanan's is the first known to be photographed. McKinley's in 1897 was the first to be filmed with a motion picture camera. Truman's in 1949 was the first to be televised.
- Another Lincoln note, it's the first one in which African Americans participated in the parade.
- After JFK was assassinated in 1963, it happened to be the first time a woman administered the oath, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, who did so on Air Force One.
- Nixon was actually sworn in on two Bibles, family heirlooms (clearly it didn't give him double the moral fibre).
- Reagan in 85 was sworn in privately on Jan. 20th because it was a Sunday. The following day, the public inauguration took place INSIDE the Capitol rotunda on a day that was 7 degrees, the coldest inauguration day on record.
From NBC's Pete Williams
Threats against the inaugural continue to stream in, though so far, none are considered specific and credible enough to lead to any change in plans. Federal agents have been working around the clock the past several days to run them all down.
However, for the past 24 hours or so, one threat in particular has been the focus of official attention. It's said to be of "limited specificity" and "unknown credibility," and is described as a generalized threat against the inaugural coming from overseas, from a Somali-based group, al-Shabaab.
Security planners have held several high-level meetings about it since yesterday and again this morning, and Obama's incoming security team has been read in on it.
FBI agents have been aggressively trying to run it down, even checking to see if certain individuals overseas have recently been on the move. But the threat is so general, there's no obvious operational change to make in how the day is unfolding, officials say, and the threat cannot be verified.
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