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Inauguration Day in D.C. is typically a day of pomp and ... peanuts? For Jimmy Carter, in 1977, it was.
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Living in D.C. means having a front-row seat to history as it's written. Recently, that history has been a wild and sometimes scary one to witness.
Inauguration Day 2021 must be one of the strangest held in D.C.: a crowdless, socially distant, virtual ceremony; a city locked down by more than 20,000 National Guard troops; a departing president who refuses to acknowledge his resounding loss during the election and who stokes the flames of conspiracy theories.