"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to
fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 1933. "And
so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you --- ask what you can do for your country." - John F.
Kennedy, January 1961. January 20 falls on a Sunday this year as
it did in 1917, 1957 and 1985. As a result, Obama will take the
official oath in a private ceremony that day at the White House.
He will follow up with the public ceremony on Monday at the
Capitol. Obama will be the first president to have two oaths
administered publicly and privately. In 2009, Chief Justice John
Roberts flubbed the oath as he read it Obama during the public
ceremony. They did it again the next day at the White House to
leave no question Thomas Jefferson was the first president
inaugurated in Washington, March 1801. The first inauguration on
January 20 by decree of the 20th Amendment was in 1937. Andrew
Jackson was the first to take the oath on the East Front of the
Capitol. Ronald Reagan