{"id":9823,"date":"2013-01-20T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2013-01-20T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:46:12","slug":"obama-sworn-in-privately-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9823","title":{"rendered":"Obama Sworn in &#8216;Privately&#8217; for Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday mornings, when I was a kid, we&#8217;d wake up and have bagels and lox that my grandfather would bring over to our house early in the morning. This family does other stuff on Sunday mornings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_eCHE8Vswrk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that Chief Justice Roberts was working from a piece of paper this time, so as to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/m1Yff-_9MZs\">the mistake he made<\/a> administering the oath incorrectly, from memory, during the official swearing in in 2009. That gaffe led to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KTPEdQ_MpUE\">&#8220;mulligan&#8221; swearing in<\/a> the following day, privately, in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, today&#8217;s swearing in is the <i>official<\/i> start of President Barack Obama&#8217;s second term under the U.S. Constitution, which specifies, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twentieth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\">20th Amendment<\/a>, that &#8220;The terms of the President and Vice President shall&#8230;then begin&#8221; at noon on the 20th day of January. (Prior to the 20th Amendment, Presidents had been sworn in on March 4th.)  But, since, this year, January 20th falls on a Sunday, the <i>public<\/i> swearing in will take place on Monday, January 21st instead, in a massive ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol, as per tradition.<\/p>\n<p>According to an announcement from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), chair of the 2013 Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, as <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2012\/03\/2013-inaugural-ceremony-to-be-pushed-back-a-day\/1#.UPw5uWeKySo\">cited by <i>USA Today<\/i><\/a> &#8220;this is the seventh time in U.S. history that the constitutionally mandated inauguration date has fallen on a Sunday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last time was for President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s second inauguration in 1985,&#8221; said Schumer&#8217;s office. &#8220;When this occurs, the public ceremonies traditionally are held on Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Past inaugurations to fall on Sundays, with public ceremonies moved to the following Monday, include James Monroe&#8217;s 2nd (1821), Zachary Tayor&#8217;s (1849), Rutherford B. Hayes&#8217; (1877), Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s 2nd (1917), Dwight D. Eisenhower&#8217;s 2nd (1957) and Ronald Reagan&#8217;s 2nd (1985).<\/p>\n<p>Schumer&#8217;s office notes that January 21 &#8220;is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It will be the second time that this federal holiday has coincided with a presidential inauguration. The first was President Bill Clinton&#8217;s second inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20, 1997.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The timing of this year&#8217;s ceremonial swearing in makes makes this Photoshopped graphic, widely circulated during <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6830\">Obama&#8217;s first inaugural<\/a>, perhaps even more appropriate, even if somewhat less moving four years later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BarackObama_MartinLutherKing.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><i>USA Today<\/i> also notes that &#8220;The law designating the third Monday in January as a federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was signed into law by President Reagan in 1983. President Reagan&#8217;s 1985 inauguration fell on the third Monday of January, but the new federal holiday did not become official until 1986.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday mornings, when I was a kid, we&#8217;d wake up and have bagels and lox that my grandfather would bring over to our house early in the morning. This family does other stuff on Sunday mornings&#8230; You&#8217;ll note that Chief Justice Roberts was working from a piece of paper this time, so as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-the-constitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}