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President Obama was not the first American president to deal with inauguration-day terror concerns.
Ashley Rindsberg: Obama's Handling of Terror Threats: Inauguration Day and Today 2010
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Certainly, it would have been tactless for it to have been a photo-op, but just having it on the inauguration-day schedule would have made the public more aware of his concern for those who sacrificed so valiantly.
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The color, fit and style of Michelle Obama's inauguration-day dresses have already been minutely dissected, from the pale lemongrass hue and sparkly details of her daytime outfit to the feminine, even demure silk chiffon and crystals of her ball gown.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4%, its worst inauguration-day performance in history, amid fresh signs of trouble among the nation's banks.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4%, its worst inauguration-day performance in history, amid fresh signs of trouble among the nation's banks.
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The governor's approval rating is nudging back up to 45% in an October SurveyUSA poll, still nearly 20 points off its inauguration-day high.
The Axelrod Method 2008
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Of course, this means that, three years after he was sworn in, when Mr. Bush told us that Iraq was "a grave and gathering danger" either because of those non-existent WMDs, or the equally non-existent ties to terrorists he was doing nothing more than trying to fool We, The People, into going along with his inauguration-day plans to have his war on Iraq.
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He has been much in public life, and never failed, except in his speech on inauguration-day, to meet the exigencies of his position.
Memorial Sermons 1865
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The ball was on an excessively hot night: yet she was dressed in a magnificent brocade, because it was new that morning for the inauguration-day.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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The day of our king was a merry day with them, either his birth-day or his inauguration-day, of which it is probable that they had an anniversary observation, or perhaps it was some holiday of his appointing, which was therefore called his day; on that day the princes met to drink the king's health, and got him among them, to be merry, and made him sick with bottles of wine.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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