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Kamala D. Harris will make history as the first Black and Indian American vice president when she is inaugurated on Jan. 20. As the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris’s inauguration is a moment of validation for many “Blindian” couples who rarely meet others who look like them. Watch as these Blindian families reflect on Harris’s inauguration and the unique set of challenges that comes with merging two very different cultures.

Garfields vice president, Chester A. Arthur, was initially sworn in by John Brady - a justice on the New York Supreme Court. Waite's swearing-in of Arthur, perhaps as much as any prior inauguration, reinforced the idea that it was the chief justice who gave the full measure of credibility to a president's succession. [...]when President Richard Nixon resigned from office in August 1974, Chief Justice Warren Burger rushed back from a foreign trip so that he could administer the oath to Vice President Gerald Ford. To be sure, no one seriously argues that the president must be sworn in by the chief justice. Since Arthur in 1881, three presidents (Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Lyndon Johnson) have not been sworn in by the chief after succeeding a deceased predecessor.

Donald J. Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Jan. 20 congratulated President Biden and Vice President Harris at the U.S. Capitol.

President Biden and Vice President Kamala D. Harris were sworn in, just hours after the 45th president, Donald Trump, left the White House on Jan. 20.

National Guard members, Capitol Police, Army tanks and extensive fencing were in place around downtown D.C. on Jan. 16 and 17 ahead of expected protests and President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.

President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration is happening amid a pandemic, security threats and tension between the shifting administrations. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who serves on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, describes preparation for the extraordinary circumstances.

President-elect Joe Biden said on Jan. 8 that President Trump's plan to not show up at Inauguration is \"one of the few things he and I have ever agreed on,\" but said that Vice President Pence is welcome to attend.

\"Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.\" With these words to the assembled members of the Senate and House of Representatives on April 30, 1789, George Washington inaugurated the American experiment. It was a momentous occasion and an immensely important moment for the nation. Never before had a people dared to invent a system of government quite like the one that Washington was preparing to lead, and the tensions between hope and skepticism ran high. In this book, distinguished scholar of early America Stephen Howard Browne chronicles the efforts of the first president of the United States of America to unite the nation through ceremony, celebrations, and oratory. The story follows Washington on his journey from Mount Vernon to the site of the inauguration in Manhattan, recounting the festivities-speeches, parades, dances, music, food, and flag-waving-that greeted the president-elect along the way. Considering the persuasive power of this procession, Browne captures in detail the pageantry, anxiety, and spirit of the nation to arrive at a more nuanced and richly textured perspective on what it took to launch the modern republican state. Compellingly written and artfully argued, The First Inauguration tells the story of the early republic-and of a president who, by his words and comportment, provides a model of leadership and democratic governance for today.

The aim of this research is to thoroughly investigate the influence of the 2025 Donald Trump Presidential Inauguration on informational efficiency of the U.S. exchange-traded fund market in the context of political risk. The data set includes daily observations for twenty U.S. Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). The whole sample comprises the period from 20 October 2024 to 20 April 2025. Since the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump took place on 20 January 2025, two sub-samples of an equal length are analyzed: (1) the period before the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration from 20 October 2024 to 19 January 2025 and (2) the period after the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration from 20 January 2025 to 20 April 2025. Since the whole sample period is not long (six months), to estimate market efficiency, modified Shannon entropy based on symbolic encoding with two thresholds is used. The empirical findings are visualized by symbol-sequence histograms. The proposed research hypothesis states that the U.S. ETF market’s informational efficiency, as measured by entropy, substantially decreased during the turbulent period after the Donald Trump Presidential Inauguration compared to the period before the Inauguration. The results unambiguously confirm the research hypothesis and indicate that political risk could affect the informational efficiency of markets. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first study exploring the influence of the Donald Trump Presidential Inauguration on the informational efficiency of the U.S. ETF market.