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POTUS Inaugurations
YGK These Presidential Inaugurations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first inauguration held under the U.S. Constitution, held at Federal Hall in New York City on April 30, 1789 | George Washington’s first inauguration |
| The New York chancellor who administered the oath of office to Washington at his first inauguration | Robert Livingston |
| The president who noted in his first inaugural address "no event could have filled me with greater anxieties" | George Washington |
| The first president to be sworn in by the Chief Justice and the first to live in the White House (in 1800) | John Adams |
| The president who delivered an 8,000-plus-word, two-hour inaugural speech without a coat, likely dying of typhoid a month later | William Henry Harrison (1841) |
| The president whose second inaugural address is among the most quoted pieces of American oratory, concluding, “With malice toward none; with charity for all” | Abraham Lincoln (1865) |
| The president who proclaimed in his first inaugural address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” | Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) (1933) |
| The last presidential inauguration to take place on March 4 | Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration |
| The first presidential inauguration to be broadcast live in color | John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) (1961) |
| The president who stated in his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” | John F. Kennedy |
| The poet who recited “The Gift Outright” at JFK's inauguration, the first poet to participate in an inauguration ceremony | Robert Frost |
| The first inauguration in nearly 150 years to take place on the west side of the Capitol, facing the National Mall | Ronald Reagan’s first inauguration (1981) |
| The president whose inauguration coincided with the release of the 52 American hostages during the Iran hostage crisis | Ronald Reagan |
| The inauguration that set a record for in-person attendance at any presidential inauguration | Barack Obama’s first inauguration (2009) |
| The Chief Justice who made a mistake while administering the oath of office to Barack Obama | Chief Justice John Roberts |
| The president whose press secretary used "alternative facts" about attendance numbers and who described poverty, crime, gangs, and drugs as “American carnage” | Donald Trump’s (2017) |
| The oldest person to ever be president when sworn in at 78 years old, whose inauguration had limited attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic | Joseph R. Biden (2021) |
| The Vice President who made history as the first woman and first person of color to hold the vice presidency | Kamala Harris |
| The Youth Poet Laureate who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at Biden's inauguration | Amanda Gorman |
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