Инаугурации президентов США ретроспектива: 1861 - 2005 годы




This 1889 painting by Ramon de Elorriaga shows the inauguration of the first president, George Washington
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Abraham Lincoln"s, March 1861
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Grover Cleveland was both the 22 and 24 President of the US. He was inaugurated in 1885, 1889 ...
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... and again in 1893, beating the incumbent President Benjamin Harrison
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William McKinley became the 25th President of the United States in 1897 and was elected for a second term. He is pictured here leaving for his inauguration in 1901
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Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 and 1905
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William Howard Taft, in 1909
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Woodrow Wilson served two terms in office, succeeding Taft in 1913
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Warren G Harding, from 1921 until his death from a heart attack in 1923
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When Harding died in 1923, Calvin Coolidge succeeded to the Presidency and was elected in his own right the following year, taking the Oath of Office in March 1925
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Herbert Hoover became the 31st President of the United States in March 1929
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933...
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...1937, 1941...
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...and 1945. He died shortly after the start of his fourth term and was succeeded by Harry S Truman
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Harry S Truman (the "S" didn"t stand for anything) was elected for a second term and is seen here waving to the crowd during a parade after his inauguration on January 20, 1949
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Dwight D Eisenhower, in 1953. (Also pictured are Truman and Richard Nixon, bottom right)
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John F Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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Kennedy"s Vice President, Lyndon B Johnson, succeeded him after he was killed, and took the Oath of Office for a second term in 1965
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Richard Nixon, in 1969
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Vice President Gerald Ford became President in August 1974 after Nixon"s resignation
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Jimmy Carter was sworn in on January 20 1977
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Actor Ronald Reagan served two terms as President, taking the Oath of Office in January 1981 ...
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... and again in 1985
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George H W Bush took the Oath of Office in January 1989
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Bill Clinton, January 20 1993
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... He served a second term from 1997 and left office with a high approval rating, despite the Lewinsky and Whitewater controversies
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George W Bush is the 43rd and current President of the United States. He was sworn in as President in January 2001 ...
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.. and again in 2005. He leaves office with one of the lowest approval ratings in history

а сега и с неизвестни все още последици,но определено различни и поставящи нови въпроси пред Америка и света!

Отмъщението на онеправданите - много надежди, но дали ще се оправдаят с човек, с доста объркана американска идентичност.

"Онези 90 процента, които винаги биват прекарвани - и при демократи, и при републиканци. Дали ще е големият бизнес или пък военният комплекс - 90 процента са винаги на загуба. В техните очи Обама поне за момента е главният герой, който по свой спокоен и убедителен начин им казва "Този път няма да стане". Дали думите и обещанията на свежия, фотогеничен Обама ще си останат само това - думи, засега е трудно да се прецени. Но магията на Обама вече върши чудеса. С малък политически опит, но с голямо сърце и с незалязваща усмивка младият сенатор от Илинойс печели почитатели в кампанията си."(в.капитал)
Като голям почитател на Ейбръхам Линкълн Обама до голям степен е планирал церемонията по встъпването си в длъжност по образец на тази на Линкълн, който управлява САЩ от 1861 г. до убийството му през 1865 г. Той ще положи клетва в Капитолия, след което ще наблюдава парада от Капитолия до Белия дом.