United States presidential inauguration facts for kids

In the United States, the inauguration of the president is the day after an election when a new president-elect is made President. The person has to take an official oath to try to be a good leader. Up until 1933, this day was March 4, but now it is January 20.

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Presidential inauguration at the western front of the U.S. Capitol facing the National Mall (site since Reagan in 1981) – Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005: President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush lead the inaugural parade from the Capitol, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House
President Reagan is sworn in "privately" on television, January 20, 1985
Inauguration platform under construction for Woodrow Wilson's first inauguration in 1913
The Reverend Donn Moomaw delivers the invocation at the first inauguration of Ronald Reagan, 1981.
Maya Angelou delivering her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993
Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural luncheon
Grandstand ticket to the Inaugural Parade for President Herbert Hoover, March 4, 1929
Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, and Jill Biden at the 2013 National Prayer Service
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection boat patrolling the waterways around Washington, D.C. prior to the inauguration of Donald Trump
A presidential medal from the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt in 1905