Speakeasy forum: Trivia

best answer I've heard.

him to have his party and parade on the legal date of oath or a couple of days later......not with MLK day the next day and 'never let a good crisis go to waste' (or in this case a good opportunity to milk it for all it's worth and take over the holiday)

to do it on the Monday following any sunday that Jan 20 happens on. Same with Reagan in Jan 1985. Both did privately on a Sunday, then publicly on a Monday. Another history trivia is March 4 used to be the correct date. I can only wonder at who and why made it happen in the middle of winter.

More difficult to travel in cold weather too, but that also makes it harder on people attending an inauguration. I thought maybe they changed from March to get away from the winds that come through during that month.

Jan. 20, and Roger explained why. And obviously your pal Ronnie Raygun never made a mistake, and he took it twice in one year as well, and for the same reason, that the 20th fell on a weekend.

The change from March to January relates to the change in the speed of travel as everybody is aware I`m sure. Why they don`t do it the first Monday after the election, I have no idea, except when a new President is elected and needs time to prepare. Always assuming they haven`t figured everything out in advance. Naming a cabinet and getting everyone to agree to serve is the problem I guess.

Why not move elections to September with inauguration in early November? That would mean that the President would start serving in the year he was elected, and kind of reduce the lame-duck impact.

Up here it`s done within a couple of weeks to a month, and always has been. Same in Britain France, Germany and all those other countries you look down on.

Rob